Quotes About Increasing Knowledge

#1. Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.

Edward Westermarck

#2. It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

#3. In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

Alfred Romer

#4. It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

Niels Bohr

#5. There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

Walter Lippmann

#6. A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. The body of knowledge keeps increasing at incredible speed, but the literature of nonknowledge grows even faster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. The principal prayer and aim of Christians should be that we "walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God" (Col 1:10).

Arthur W. Pink

#9. If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.

John Tyler

#10. If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

Ben Carson

#11. The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

Salvador Dali

#12. One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

Nate Silver

#13. I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

Jack W. Szostak

#14. He doesn't love anyone, and maybe he never will.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

Herbert Hoover

#16. New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Feynman called it 'the expanding frontier of ignorance'.

Matt Baldwin

#17. It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#18. HISTORY MAKES LITTLE SENSE WITHOUT PREHISTORY, AND PREHISTORY MAKES LITTLE SENSE WITHOUT BIOLOGY. KNOWLEDGE OF PREHISTORY AND BIOLOGY IS INCREASING RAPIDLY, BRINGING INTO FOCUS HOW HUMANITY ORIGINATED AND WHY A SPECIES LIKE OUR OWN EXISTS ON THIS PLANET.

Edward O. Wilson

#19. Armour is light at table.

George Herbert

#20. I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H.G.Wells

#21. While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

Sam Kean

#22. So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#23. For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.

Rene Descartes

#24. Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

Grove Karl Gilbert

#25. You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

Dave Winfield

#26. Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

Orison Swett Marden

#27. Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Raheel Farooq

#28. No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

H.L. Mencken

#29. God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

Brigham Young

#30. Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.

Geoff Nicholson

#31. All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Jack Kerouac

#32. Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#33. As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#34. We must not think, "Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge." The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.

Ellen G. White