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“Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss.”
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.”
Francisco Varela (1946–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 26, partly cited in: In 7 Quotes or Less at evenhigherlearning.wordpress.com, June 8, 2009
“[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our constitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.”
Francisco Varela (1946–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First come I; my name is . There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.”
Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1935).
“7. The basis of correct knowledge is correct perception, correct deduction and correct witness (or accurate evidence).One of the most revolutionary realizations to which the occult student has to adjust himself is the appreciation that the mind is a means whereby knowledge is to be gained...”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.”
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (born 1938) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: June 27, 1999, Crans Montana Forum, Switzerland.
“Most events spring from causes equally small: we are unacquainted with them because most historians have been themselves ignorant of them, or have not had eyes capable of perceiving them. It is true, that, in this respect, the mind may repair their omissions; for the knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.”
Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.”
Sallustius (400–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True knowledge, in this perspective, is always indirect knowledge; it is composed of reported statements, that are incorporated into metanarratives of a subject that source their legitimacy.”
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hegel’s… deepest objections to the view of knowledge as method and power, as “controlling knowledge” (Scheler, Tillich) or “the logic of domination” (Marcuse), are moral. He agrees with Schiller that “utility is the great idol of the times.”
Merold Westphal (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.”
Peter Sloterdijk (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.”
Leon Kass (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists.”
David Silverman (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“86. Knowledge! The great possession of man. It is a fellow-worker with prayer, acting to awaken the power of thought to contemplate the divine knowledge.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is far more arrogant to profess intuitive knowledge of the sacred than scientific knowledge of the tangible.”
James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling.”
Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge can be considered as a collection of information, or as an activity, or as a potential. If we think of it as a collection of information, then the analogy of a computer's memory is helpful, for we can say that knowledge about something is like the storage of meaningful and true strings of symbols in a computer.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 9; cited in Daniel J. Power (2004) Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions. p. 23
“To conceive of knowledge as a collection of information seems to rob the concept of all of its life. Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 10; cited in Daniel J. Power (2004) Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions, p. 23
“Knowledge is a potential for a certain type of action, by which we mean that the action would occur if certain tests were run. For example, a library plus its user has knowledge if a certain type of response will be evoked under a given set of stipulations.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our knowledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which facts and ideas bear to themselves and to each other; and real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.”
Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Influence Of Women On The Progress Of Knowledge". Lecture given at the Royal Institution 19 March 1858. In: The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
“Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge make us valuable. When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody need us. It does not matter what we look like, or where we came from, if we have something that others have a need for.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the presence of the total reality upon which our conduct is founded, our knowledge is characterized by peculiar limitations and aberrations. We cannot say in principle that "error is life and knowledge is death," because a being involved in persistent errors would continually act wide of the purpose, and would thus inevitably perish.”
Georg Simmel (1858–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The desire to assert that knowledge is pure subjectivity or that knowledge is never more than mere ill-founded belief is rooted in a twisted admiration for moral relativism, or perhaps worse, in an egocentric belief that ‘the universe is a product of my mind, and nothing else.’”
Malcolm Azania (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an exact correspondence between a world where everything seems to be in a state of mere 'becoming', leaving no place for the changeless and the permanent, and the state of mind of men who find all reality in this 'becoming', thus implicitly denying true knowledge as well as the object of that knowledge, namely transcendent and universal principles.”
René Guénon (1886–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever we know about society, or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through the mass media. This is true not only of our knowledge of society but also of our knowledge of nature.”
Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Invention is here interpreted broadly as the production of knowledge. From the viewpoint of welfare economics, the determination of optimal resource allocation for invention will depend on the technological characteristics of the invention process and the nature of the market for knowledge.”
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention", published in The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity (1962)
“There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.”
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theorem I. Any sight of which seeing has not informed me of, is unknown to me. Comments. 1. Sensible knowledge discriminated from intellectual knowledge. 2. The intellectual injury from the privation of any sense.”
Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as the fire is the direct cause for cooking, so without Knowledge no emancipation can be had. Compared with all other forms of discipline Knowledge of the Self is the one direct means for liberation.”
Adi Shankara (788–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control. Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan. (1971) p. 85; As cited in: Eugene Dupuis (2001) Time Shift: Managing Time to Create a Life You Love. Ch. 5: Self Management”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. Without knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith is that which dispels desire, Devotion is that which generates knowledge. And Vedas say that knowledge is that which fashions freedom.”
Tulsidas (1511–1623) said by 1623 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amid all these holy acts, the knowledge of self (should be translated, knowledge of the Self, Ātmā) is said (to be) the highest; this indeed is the foremost of all sciences, since from it immortality is obtained.* [* xii. 85. Trans. of Burnell and Hopkins.]”
Annie Besant (1847–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wadewitz was an educator who did not live to make money from her knowledge. Instead, she chose to spread her knowledge as freely as possible for the good of readers everywhere.”
Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brandt, Shane (April 22, 2014). "Wikipedia editor dies, leaving behind appreciative students". The Daily Cougar (Houston, Texas: thedailycougar.com; University of Houston).
“I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge.”
Alhazen (965–1039) said by 1039 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The "second order cyberneticians" claimed that knowledge is a biological phenomenon (Maturana, 1970), that each individual constructs his or her own "reality" (Foerster, 1973) and that knowledge "fits" but does not "match" the world of experience (von Glasersfeld, 1987).”
Stuart A. Umpleby (born 1944) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stuart A. Umpleby (1994) The Cybernetics of Conceptual Systems. p. 3
“The advance in knowledge and useful new factors based on such knowledge are all too frequently put aside as if they were not produced means of production but instead simply happened to occur over time. This view is as a rule implicit in the notion of technological change.”
Theodore Schultz (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aim of a student’s life should be to overcome any illusions or prejudices he may have and to give up mean habits. He should, and it is his duty to, propagate education among his illiterate brothers and to consider the propagation of education as part of his own education. He ought to acquire knowledge for the sake of knowledge and he should not be unaware of the needs of life.”
Zakir Hussain (politician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here, at the birth of modern science, is a fundamental insight. Our knowledge of nature Out There begins with knowledge of ourselves In Here. Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.”
Theodore Roszak (scholar) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think knowledge is a blessing, not a curse. This is especially true in the case of genetic knowledge.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A collection of records may be the result of professional knowledge, research, and skill, just as a collection of curiosities is the result of the skill and knowledge of the antiquarian or virtuoso.”
Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen (1831–1894) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lyell v. Kennedy (1884), L. R. 27 C. D. 31.
“I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge of the Divine Attributes or Godhead is the most perfect knowledge since it is realized through the soul's communion with God.”
Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796–861) said by 861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Knowledge assets are] stocks of knowledge through which different value added services flow.”
Max Boisot (1943–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 3.; as cited in: Evans, M. M., and Natasha Ali. "Bridging knowledge management life cycle theory and practice." 2013.
“Traditional statistics is strong in devising ways of describing data and inferring distributional parameters from sample. Causal inference requires two additional ingredients: a science-friendly language for articulating causal knowledge, and a mathematical machinery for processing that knowledge, combining it with data and drawing new causal conclusions about a phenomenon.”
Judea Pearl (born 1936) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pearl, Judea. "Causal inference in statistics: An overview." Statistics Surveys 3 (2009): 96-146.
“I believe that the ancient knowledge that stands behind Hinduism is a truth the world needs: why life ? What happens after death? What is karma, what is dharma ? How the divine manifests himself or herself, at different times under different names, with different scriptures…. That knowledge which once roamed the world, from Mesopotamia to Greece, only survives today in India.”
François Gautier (born 1959) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from "Why I Love To Hate Outlook", Outlook (17 November 2014)