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 acquisitionmenknowledge 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 menscienceknowledge 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 teachingheartknowledge 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 spacescienceknowledge 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 talkingscienceknowledge It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. Charles Sanders Peirce menscienceknowledge 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 knowingscienceknowledge 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 scienceknowledgethinking 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 sacrificetakenknowledge 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 wisdomwiseknowledge Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. Charles Spurgeon wisdomuseknowledge To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon wisdomwiseknowledge Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon liftsworldknowledge In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge. Charles Tart givenendsknowledge Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge. Charles Wagner menknowledge The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Charlie Munger helping-othersinspirationalknowledge 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 answerspastknowledge It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning. Chester Barnard learningknowledgethinking 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 lifedeathknowledge Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Chip Heath imagineknowsknowledge«1314151617181920212223»
