Knowledge Quotes
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.Frank Herbert
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - This is knowledge.Confucius
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Socrates
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.Confucius
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.Thomas H. Huxley
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.Thomas Arnold
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.Will Durant
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Alexis Carrel
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.Johann von Goethe
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.Camille Paglia
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.William Bake
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.Helen Hayes
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.Thomas H. Huxley
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
Knowledge is expensive.Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.Ludwig Boerne
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.Cicero
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.William Shakespeare
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.Arabic Prove
