Knowledge Quotes
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.Henry Louis Mencken
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.Albert Einstein
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.Robert Anthony
I have taken all knowledge to by my province.Sir Francis Bacon
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
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
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
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
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.Kahlil Gibran
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
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.Johann von Goethe
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Knowledge is power.Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
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
All men by nature desire knowledge.Aristotle, Metaphysics
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
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
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.Confucius
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
