Famous Quotes About knowledge

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.