“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Knowledge
Isaac Newton on Science
Thomas Fuller on Facts
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.” Continue reading
Alec Bourne on Education
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” Continue reading
Socrates on Wisdom
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Continue reading
Frank Herbert on Knowledge
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” Continue reading
Charles Caleb Colton Cynical Quote
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.” Continue reading
Louis Pasteur on Education
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” Continue reading
Galileo Galilei on Ignorance
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” Continue reading
Josh Billings on Experience
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” Continue reading
Douglas Adams on the Universe
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” Continue reading
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