No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. —John Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent More about this quote Tags: commonality people knowledge relationship assumptions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy fear knowledge communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. —Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others. —Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge teaching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: knowledge breadth depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on. —Jacques Cousteau More about this quote Tags: knowledge curiosity science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. —Matt Cartmill More about this quote Tags: humor meaning knowledge science facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. —Terry Prachett More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. —Arthur C. Clarke More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge certainty science doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. —J. B. S. Haldane More about this quote Tags: understanding knowledge universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We feel and know that we are eternal. —Baruch Spinoza More about this quote Tags: existence knowledge eternal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. —Neil Gaiman More about this quote Tags: understanding power knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love More about this quote Tags: life knowledge romance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: love knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Facts are the enemy of truth. —Miguel de Cervantes More about this quote Tags: truth reality knowledge facts metaphor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email