Knowledge Quotes

Sir arthur eddington, stars and atoms (1928), lecture 1 - i ask you to look both ways. for the road to a...
Patanjali - peace can be reached through meditation on the...
Jane austen, northanger abbey - only a novel... in short, only some work in which...
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
George Gurdjieff
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
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
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
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
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Edwin P. Whipple
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Kelle
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
The Hitopadesa
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal
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
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Shelley, incomplete, poets
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!
Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Knowledge is expensive.
Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Tyron Edwards