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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. -- Walter Benjamin
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. -- Muhammad Iqbal
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. -- H. L. Mencken
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. -- John Jewel
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. -- Jean Piaget
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. -- Jean Piaget
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. -- Arthur Machen
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. -- Jimmy Wales
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. -- Franz Grillparzer
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. -- John F. Kennedy
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 Simon
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge. -- Ray Kurzweil
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. -- George Bernard Shaw
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. -- Alfred Nobel
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream. -- Roger Ebert
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. -- Abdallah II
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing. -- Cory Doctorow
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. -- Nathaniel Branden
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. -- Albert Einstein
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 A. Simon
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. -- Michael Jackson
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. -- Francis Bacon
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake. -- Karl Popper
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown. -- Louis Agassiz
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. -- James Marsh
Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false. -- Francis Schaeffer
Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. -- Idries Shah
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. -- Francis Bacon
Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible. -- Frank H. T. Rhodes
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Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. -- Sir Fulke Greville
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. -- John Charles Polanyi
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general. -- Ernest Sosa
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. -- Elizabeth Edwards
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. -- Plato
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. -- Horace Mann
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. -- Henry Adams
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. -- Leon Surmelian
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it. -- William James
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. -- Alan Bennett
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human. -- Tim Lebbon
Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness. -- Halford Mackinder
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. -- Thomas Reed
Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today. -- Ted Andrews
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. -- Alan Bennett
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. -- William Wordsworth
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. -- Immanuel Kant
The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving. -- James Redfield
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. -- Sri Aurobindo
Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge. -- Eraldo Banovac
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. -- Poul Anderson
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life -- Protagoras
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark." -- John Jewel
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery -- Daniel J. Boorstin
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution. -- Alvin Toffler
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. -- Daniel D. Palmer
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. -- Alexander Hamilton
The stages of human development are to strive for:(1) Besitz [Possession](2) Wissen [Knowledge](3) KÃ¶nnen [Ability](4) Sein [Being -- Erwin Schrodinger
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. -- Sidney Hook
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know. -- Anthony de Mello
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. -- Konrad Lorenz
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty -- Thabo Mbeki
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death. -- Toba Beta
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. -- Rudolf Steiner
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell, -- Michael Polanyi
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. -- Ralph Ellison
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. -- Al-Ghazali
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. -- Stephen Jay Gould
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. -- Charles Babbage
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. -- Rudolf Steiner
Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman. -- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. -- Rene Descartes
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true. -- C. S. Lewis
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. -- Samuel Johnson
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. -- John Charles Polanyi
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. -- Maria Montessori
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge Ã priori. -- Immanuel Kant
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge. -- Stuart Sherman
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. -- Herodotus
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce. -- Michel de Montaigne
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. -- Don DeLillo
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. -- Robert Frost
We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. -- Grace Hopper
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals. -- Albert Einstein
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows. -- Clay Shirky
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. -- David Suzuki
The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race -- Hugo Rahner
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. -- John Henry Newman
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for. -- Norah Vincent
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. -- Harriet Martineau
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. -- Harry S. Truman
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf, -- Albert Sabin
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. -- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. -- Jostein Gaarder
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined. -- Hilary Kornblith

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