Quotes by Knowledge A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions. Charles Lamb acquisition men knowledge Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists. Charles Lyell men science knowledge And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name. Charles Nicolle teaching heart knowledge The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this. Charles Proteus Steinmetz space science knowledge The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is. Charles Proteus Steinmetz talking science knowledge It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. Charles Sanders Peirce men science knowledge If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things. Charles Sanders Peirce knowing science knowledge As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. Charles Scott Sherrington science knowledge thinking Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth. Charles Scott Sherrington sacrifice taken knowledge Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon wisdom wise knowledge Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. Charles Spurgeon wisdom use knowledge To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon wisdom wise knowledge Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon lifts world knowledge In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge. Charles Tart given ends knowledge Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge. Charles Wagner men knowledge The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Charlie Munger helping-others inspirational knowledge If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it. Charlie Munger answers past knowledge It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning. Chester Barnard learning knowledge thinking Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death. Chester Himes life death knowledge Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Chip Heath imagine knows knowledge «1314151617181920212223»