Knowledge Quotes
Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.Myron Tribus
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
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
Knowledge exists to be imparted.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups.Clark Coleman
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
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
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
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.John Kenneth Galbraith
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
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
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. 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 Hammarskjold
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
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Socrates
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Conan Doyle
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
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
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.William Shakespeare
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
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
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, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
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
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
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
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.Will Durant
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.Kahlil Gibran
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.Blaise Pascal
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.Kahlil Gibran
Play is the beginning of knowledge.George Dorsey
I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.Cicero
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin
