Knowledge Quotes
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
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 F. Will
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
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
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
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.Albert Einstein
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
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
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.Socrates
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.Kahlil Gibran
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.George Bernard Shaw
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
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.John Maurice Clark
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.Charles Hodge
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.Sir Arthur Eddington
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteu
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.H. L. Mencken
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
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
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
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.Josh Billings
