Knowledge Quotes

Friedrich nietzsche - every extension of knowledge arises from making...
Marilyn vos savant - to acquire knowledge, one must study; but to...
Mark twain - always acknowledge a fault. this will throw those...
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Arthur Baldwin
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)
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.
Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
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
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.
West African Saying
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Prove
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 35 Bible
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
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
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
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
Phillip Earl Stanhope
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
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
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.
Lewis Mumford
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.
T. T. Munge
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann von Goethe
I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Bill Veeck
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
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