Top 100 Human Knowledge Quotes
#1. [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.
Steven Levy
#2. Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#3. Knowledge was the great thing
not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.
Graham Greene
#4. Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.
Toba Beta
#5. 'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
William James
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.
Robert M. Pirsig
#11. Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
Ray Kurzweil
#12. The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.
Thomas Malthus
#13. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.
Salman Rushdie
#15. The enterprise of making sense of the material world turns on a key question: what happens when something observed in nature doesn't fit within the established framework of existing human knowledge?
Thomas Levenson
#16. 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
#17. There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
Laurence Overmire
#18. Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.
Albert Einstein
#19. The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.
Stuart Sherman
#20. - This, she said, is a book. It is one of our ways of codifying and keeping human knowledge. When it cannot be kept in a person's head, this is one method of keeping it safe. It is a good way of moving ideas from one head to another, as it only requires one person's time to do it, and not two.
Jesse Ball
#21. Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.
Charles Babbage
#22. On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
Alfred North Whitehead
#23. I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin
#24. Trichloroethane [ ... ] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge
Chuck Palahniuk
#25. It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.
Thomas Malthus
#26. Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
John Jewel
#27. Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.
Ayn Rand
#28. Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.
Joseph Paxton
#29. Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.
Anonymous
#30. They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
Thomas Reed
#31. IT IS A COMMON REPROACH AGAINST CHRISTIANITY THAT ITS dogmas are unchanging, while human knowledge is in continual growth.
C.S. Lewis
#32. For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.
Hippocrates
#33. Human knowledge is one thing, human wellbeing another. There is no predetermined harmony between the two. The examined life may not be worth living.
John N. Gray
#34. Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible.
Stephen Hawking
#35. The position of an art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.
Ayn Rand
#36. Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
Sri Aurobindo
#37. This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget
#38. Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. 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
#40. This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
Anthony De Mello
#41. The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical ...
Amanda Dubin
#42. The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.
John Brunner
#43. Anyone who has experienced a strange episode in their life that defies all present scientific knowledge can appreciate the limits of human knowledge. There's nothing like such an event to make you keenly aware of how little we truly know and understand.
Steven Symes
#44. 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
#45. Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.
M.H. Van Keuren
#46. The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry.
Frank Huguenard
#47. Not everyone needs to possess every ounce of human knowledge to survive. I mean, that's what Google is for.
Abby McDonald
#48. 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
#49. I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.
Alexandre Dumas
#50. The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#51. Mrs. Turton says when something happens that no one can explain, it means you have bumped up against the edge of human knowledge. And that is when you need science. Science is the process for finding the explanations that no one else can give you.
Ali Benjamin
#53. the term knowledge engineering has been used to refer to a part of artificial intelligence that particularly centers its objectives on the ways that human knowledge can be represented in a machine and on the diverse strategies that can be used to manipulate
Diego Rasskin-Gutman
#54. A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
Tony Abbott
#55. 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
#56. To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.
Vera John-Steiner
#57. Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about
Piero Scaruffi
#58. Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation ... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.
Francis Bacon
#59. I suppose half a klick won on some alien rock has a price about the same as a paragraph gained in the storehouse of human knowledge.
Hugh Howey
#60. We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. Mencken
#61. MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
#62. I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.
Jarvis Cocker
#63. God and his love, and of multiple layers of human folly, which rings true at all kinds of levels of human knowledge and experience.
N. T. Wright
#64. Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything
Stewart Stafford
#65. 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 Of Jordan
#66. Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#67. 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
#68. The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.
Erik Naggum
#69. The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
Flannery O'Connor
#70. Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.
Luis Von Ahn
#71. One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
Jacob Bronowski
#72. To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Jean Piaget
#73. There's never enough information ... That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.
Orson Scott Card
#74. 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
#75. We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.
Robertson Davies
#76. My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God.
Eben Alexander
#78. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
Rick Yancey
#79. The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
Ashwin Sanghi
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.
Paul Broca
#83. His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.
James Joyce
#84. History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#85. We're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.
Chuck Klosterman
#86. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.
Paulo Freire
#87. The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#88. What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
Stephen Jay Gould
#89. A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.
Mary Shelley
#90. All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant
#91. 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
#92. The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#93. 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
#94. Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Arthur Machen
#95. Often times we allow ourselves to become impatient, by viewing God's promises based on our human knowledge. Our thoughts and ways are irrelevant in his judgment to grant any of our requests. We need to have patience and trust in God for answers to our requests.
Ellen J. Barrier
#96. One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.
Michel Foucault
#97. But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Muhammad Iqbal
#98. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.
Paul Kalanithi
#99. There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.
Peter Thiel
#100. Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
