英语格言警句_Knowledge_(K2)

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

- Booker T. Washington

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

- Robin Morgan

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

- Thomas H. Huxley

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form -- has expanded literally beyond prehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

- Dee Hock

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

The fact that I can plant a seed and it bees a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it bees another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

- Leo Buscaglia

Publicity is justly mended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

- Louis D. Brandeis

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

- Henry Brooks Adams

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

- Immanuel Kant

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

- Richard Feynman

It is in the Earth's green covering of grass; In the blue serenity of the Sky; In the reckless exuberance of Spring; In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;

- Rabindranath Tagore

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, bine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Immanuel Kant

Information is not knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtualguarantee of bad behavior,

- Martha Nussbaum

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

- Parker J. Palmer

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- George Santayana

The remark of the Emperor Julian, on the story of The Tree of Knowledge, is worth observing. "If," said he, "there ever had been, or could be, a Tree of Knowledge, instead of God forbidding man to eat thereof, it would be that of which he would order him to eat the most."

- Thomas Paine

Knowledge is not simply another modity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

- Immanuel Kant

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

- John Locke

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

- James Russell Lowell

A scholar is mitted to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

- Parker J. Palmer

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

- Frank Herbert

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

- W. H. Auden

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

- John Naisbitt

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

- Anne Sullivan

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

- Charles Caleb Colton

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

- Albert Einstein

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

- Robert Graves

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

- Rene Descartes

Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

- Plotinus

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it es, you feel you've known it always.

- Katherine Anne Porter

Trust your hunches.They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

- Joyce Brothers

Intuition bees increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

- John Naisbitt

Intuition and concepts constitute ... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

- Immanuel Kant

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

- Corliss Lamont

Trust yourself.You know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

- Charles Caleb Colton

There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down.

- Christopher Morley

I have e to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

- Umberto Eco

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe