Knowledge Quotes
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.Gene Wolfe
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
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
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.George Santayana
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.Jeremy Taylo
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.Thomas H. Huxley
The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.James A. Perkins
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
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
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
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
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.Socrates
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
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.Shelley, incomplete, poets
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.Erastus Flavel Beadle
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.Thomas Carlyle
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.Samuel Johnson
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.William Shakespeare
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.Voltaire
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.Norman Juste
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
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
