Knowledge Quotes

Steven runciman - faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of...
Jeremy taylo - it is impossible to make people understand their...
George santayana - knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of...
An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.
Benjamin Franklin
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Erastus Flavel Beadle
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter Lippmann
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
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.
US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.
Carl R. Rogers
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Kelle
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say.
Barbara McClintock
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.
Immanuel Kant
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
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
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
Myron Tribus
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashely Montagu
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Sid Taylo
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