Knowledge Quotes

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 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

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

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

Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.

Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)

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

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Saint Augustine

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoi

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Thomas Arnold

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

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Phillip Chesterfield

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.

Mary B. Yates

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Joseph Priestly

Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Lord Tennyson

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.

Pliny the Elde

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

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert

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

Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.

William Bake

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

George Will

If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjld