More quotations tagged with “knowledge”
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing—that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
—Francis Bacon
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
—Samuel Johnson
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
—Richard Feynman
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
—Richard Feynman
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes