Knowledge Quotes

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
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Matthew Henry
Daniel j. boorstin - knowledge is not simply another commodity. on the...
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
John Kenneth Galbraith
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Phillip earl stanhope - the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired...
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
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Kelle
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Edwin P. Whipple
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Bhagavad Gita
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
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
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
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
August Hare
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylo
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Author Unknown
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spence
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
Charles Simmons
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles