Knowledge Quotes
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.Bhagavad Gita
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.Brian Tracy
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
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.Robert Collie
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
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.The Hitopadesa
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.Thomas Carlyle
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.Margaret Fulle
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
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
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.William James
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
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
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.Juvenal
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
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
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.Author Unknown
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.West African Saying
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
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.Arlene Raven
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.John Kenneth Galbraith
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.Vince Lombardi
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.Albert Einstein
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
