Knowledge Quotes

Benjamin disraeli - it is knowledge that influences and equalizes the...
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
Ludwig Boerne
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
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates, Law
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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
Tyron edwards - whoever in prayer can say, our father,...
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.
Arabic Prove
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vincent Lombardi
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.
Ted Morgan
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.
Carl R. Rogers
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry Louis Mencken
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
Edwin p. whipple - knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in...
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - This is knowledge.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Erastus Flavel Beadle
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
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
Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings
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
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
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
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
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
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
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
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".