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Quotes about knowledge
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. (Babbage Charles)
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad. (Babbage Charles)
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. (Babbage Charles)
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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. (Babbage Charles)
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. (Babbage Charles)
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. (Babbage Charles)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. (Babbage Charles)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. (Babbage Charles)
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. (Babbage Charles)
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge. (Babbage Charles)
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. (Babbage Charles)
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. (Babbage Charles)
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value. (Babbage Charles)
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life. (Babbage Charles)
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others. (Babbage Charles)
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. (Babbage Charles)
Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. (Babbage Charles)
The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him. (Babbage Charles)
A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success. (Babbage Charles)
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