Knowledge Has No Limits Quotes

#1. Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more.

R.K. Narayan

#2. The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Dan Barker

#4. A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge: a great man's world by the limits of his vision.

E. Paul Hovey

#5. The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

Oswald Chambers

#6. Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

#7. The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

Rudolf Virchow

#8. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Toni Morrison

#9. The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#10. My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the I began investing outside of the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.

Philip Arthur Fisher

#11. Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

Bruce H. Lipton

#12. 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

#13. Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.

Yanni

#14. Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Israel Shenker

#15. I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

#16. Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate conciousness by the limits of short-term memory.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#17. A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Natasha Trethewey

#18. The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Jim Rohn

#19. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

#20. The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Bill Buford

#21. This is known, and what is not known does not undermine it. This is the scientific way. To be open about the limits of one's knowledge increases public confidence in what one says is known.

Salman Rushdie

#22. He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

Chanakya

#23. He who raises a question opens knowledge and he who gives an answer limits knowledge

Respicius Rwehumbiza

#24. There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

Daniel Dennett

#25. The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#26. When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Vivek Wadhwa

#27. ... the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.

Betty Smith

#28. My thoughts are limitless. Social conditioning creates the limits. I like to overtake those and like to go where my thoughts take me.

Debasish Mridha

#29. It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Sophie Swetchine

#30. Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#32. I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.

Umberto Eco

#33. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

Suzy Kassem

#35. If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

Rudolf Virchow

#36. It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

Stanislaw Lem