Comprehensive Knowledge Quotes

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.

I don't want to rely on one thing. Being good at everything, that's how you earn your spot on the floor.

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.