knowledge

Found 6 thoughts of knowledge

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

' Imagination offers more than knowledge because of its pure illuminations. '

Alex Mero