Knowledge Quotes
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.Kahlil Gibran
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.Robert Anthony
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
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
I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.Cicero
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Amy Grant
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.Seneca
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
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
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
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
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
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".
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
Knowledge is power.Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The ideal engineer is a composite... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.N. W. Dougherty, 1955
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.Eric Hoffe
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Arthur Baldwin
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
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
