Knowledge Quotes
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.Arabic Prove
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.Arlene Raven
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.Maria Mitchell
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Prove
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.George Bernard Shaw
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.Bertrand Russell
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.Christine Lane
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates
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)
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.Thomas H. Huxley
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.Gen. Peyton C. March
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.Helen Kelle
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.Charles Darwin
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
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
