Knowledge Quotes
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.Vincent Lombardi
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates, Law
The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.Ted Morgan
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.Joseph Priestly
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.Anais Nin
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.Norman Juste
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.Margaret Fulle
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.Lord Chesterfield
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.Albert Schweitze
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.Carl Jung
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.Native American
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.Christine Lane
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
