Quotes by Knowledge We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary. Chogyam Trungpa armyattitudeknowledge I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably. Christiaan Huygens sciencebelieveknowledge Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow. Christine Downing reedswaterknowledge Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed. Christopher Alexander menlyingknowledge Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. Christopher Lasch copiesrealityknowledge Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Christopher Zeeman creativitytruthknowledge Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple. Chuck Palahniuk drinkingsexknowledge We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. Clarence Darrow wisdomlifeknowledge Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. Clarence Day inspiringbeautyknowledge Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak. Clarence Day dupescreatingknowledge When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently. Clark Moustakas doeknowledgethinking Genius is nothing but continued attention. Claude Adrien Helvetius focusmotivationalknowledge Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. Claude Bernard menscienceknowledge Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward. Claude Bernard menscienceknowledge As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth. Claude Bernard learningscienceknowledge It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them. Claude Bernard sciencemeanknowledge We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain. Claude Bernard achievementscienceknowledge Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. Claude Levi-Strauss doubtscienceknowledge One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. Claude M. Bristol goldspiritknowledge Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose. Claudius Buchanan good-manmenknowledge«1415161718192021222324»
