>Knowledge – Famous Quotes
Posted by By wally at 29 December, at 15 : 00 PM Print
>Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626 CE): “The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.”
Charles Darwin: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
Albert Einstein:
“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Anais Nin: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Dana Scully, character on the TV program “X-files”: “There is no contradiction in Nature – only contradiction in what we know of it.”
Alvin Toffler: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Chuang Tzu, circa 300 BCE: “To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”
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