Knowledge Quotes

Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Tyron Edwards

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

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 the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.

Christine Lane

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.

Mary B. Yates

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.

West African Saying

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

I have taken all knowledge to by my province.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Kelle

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

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Steve Droke

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

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

Plato

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

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

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.

Phillip Earl Stanhope

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.

Johann von Goethe

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Helen Kelle

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteu

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Sid Taylo

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Henry Louis Mencken