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The History Of Knowledge Quotes About The History Of Ideas

The history of ideas is the history of the wayward and adventurous journeys of the human spirit.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The history of knowledge is a history of the betterment of humanity.
Karl Jaspers

The history of ideas is the history of the human mind in motion.
Isaiah Berlin

The history of knowledge is a story of the human race.
H.G. Wells

The history of ideas is the history of the power of ideas to shape the course of human affairs.
John Maynard Keynes

The history of knowledge is a history of the search for truth.
Jacob Bronowski

The history of ideas is the history of the grapple of the human mind with itself.
Arthur O. Lovejoy

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The history of ideas is the history of the successive emancipations of human consciousness.
Susan Sontag

The history of knowledge is a field that is still growing rapidly, almost exponentially.
Peter Burke

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About The Evolution Of Thought

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Thomas Paine

The history of science is the history of mankind's ideas and their gradual development.
Hermann von Helmholtz

The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About The Impact Of Knowledge On Society

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Innovation

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Anonymous

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and embrace change.
Richard Branson

Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.
L. Duncan

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Scientific Discovery

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
William Lawrence Bragg

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

The greatest scientists are artists as well.
Albert Einstein

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Technological Advancement

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
Alan Kay

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Bill Gates

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
John Lasseter

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

The human spirit must prevail over technology.
Albert Einstein

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Dennis Gabor

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.
Libby Larsen

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
Bill Gates

The advance of technology is the natural result of human curiosity and ingenuity.
Freeman Dyson

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Learning

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
Michel Legrand

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Wisdom

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes

The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
African Proverb

The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool speaks because he has to say something.
Plato

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Zhuangzi

The wise man knows that it is better to be silent than to speak nonsense.
Euripides

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Education

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

The best education I have ever received was through travel.
Lisa Ling

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Knowledge Acquisition

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not is a fool for life.
Confucius

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Aristotle

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Intellectual Progress

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is never-ending. The day you stop seeking knowledge is the day you stop growing.
Brandon Travis Ciaccio

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About Cultural Evolution

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
Clifford Geertz

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
Andre Malraux

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear.
Walter Lippmann

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

Culture is the sum total of all the things that make a people what they are.
Thomas Wolfe

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About The Pursuit Of Truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand

The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle.
Rutherford Platt

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck

The pursuit of truth is a chaste and lonely office.
Samuel Johnson

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About The Power Of Ideas

Ideas are the source of all things.
Plato

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The power of an idea can be measured by the degree of resistance it attracts.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves.
Swami Vivekananda

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.
John Maynard Keynes

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Nelson Mandela

The power of an idea, multiplied by passion, is greater than the power of the sword.
Abdul Kalam

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love.
Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.
Ray Kurzweil

The History Of Knowledge Quotes About The Importance Of Knowledge

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu

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