Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust doctorheedillness Change image and share on social
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. Marcel Proust bodychaincompel share on social
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life. H. P. Lovecraft chaosconductcreation share on social
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing. Gordon B. Hinckley eternalknowledgelearn Change image and share on social
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. Confucius knowledgetrue Change image and share on social
Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further. Sri Mulyani Indrawati bankbelievebrick share on social
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. David Hume divinitygrowthknowledge Change image and share on social
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas Babington Macaulay borrowclassconvey share on social
It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system. Talcott Parsons completelydevelopmentfactual share on social
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. Talcott Parsons developmentfactualforward share on social