Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hilbert

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

David Hilbert

We must know. We will know.

David Hume

It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.

David Hume

We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.

David Hume

All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.

David Hume

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Audre Lorde

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Arnold Bennett

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Al Bernstein

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

David Hood

If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

David Hume

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

David Hume

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Alan Dershowitz

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Alan Dershowitz

I learn from experience.

Charles Kettering

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Kylie Minogue

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

David Drake

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

David Brainerd

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

David Brooks

We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

Audre Lorde

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

Arthur Rimbaud

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

Antonio Tabucchi

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

Antonin Artaud

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.