Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 362 Knowledge quotesKnowledge QuotesKnowledge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.~ Joseph Conrad History is a vast early warning system.~ Norman Cousins I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known.~ Noel Coward The holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.~ Patrick Cox As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them.~ Tench Coxe The desire to know is natural to good men.~ Leonardo da Vinci It takes a long time to understand nothing.~ Edward Dahlberg There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.~ William Damon Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.~ Frank Dane The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.~ Clarence S. Darrow To suppose that the eye [...] could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.~ Charles Darwin Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.~ Charles Darwin I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether things are so.~ Michel De Montaigne Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.~ Alexis de Tocqueville If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.~ Graceanne A. Decandido If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.~ W. Edwards Deming It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.~ W. Edwards Deming There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.~ Demosthenes There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.~ Daniel Dennett We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.~ Max DePree Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print