"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." - Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTweet
"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds." - Herbert SimonTweet
"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?" - Louis AragonTweet
"I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste." - Rocco DiSpiritoTweet
"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding." - Albert Szent-GyorgyiTweet
"We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself." - Leon JouhauxTweet
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation." - Charles BabbageTweet
"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete." - Lafcadio HearnTweet
"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand." - Aly KhanTweet
"Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence." - Robert MillikanTweet