Knowledge Quotes
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.Euripides
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.Wilbur Wright
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.Walt Whitman
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
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
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Laertius Diogenes
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Alexis Carrel
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Prove
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
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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)
God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.Arabic Prove
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
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
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.Charles Dickens
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
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.Albert Schweitze
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Author Unknown
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.August Hare
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
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates, Law
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.Henry Louis Mencken
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
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
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.Voltaire
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.Thomas H. Huxley
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
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.Native American
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Arthur Baldwin
