Knowledge Quotes

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

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

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Gen. Peyton C. March

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

Helen Kelle

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

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 only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

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 essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.

Julie Morgenstern

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spence

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

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

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

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

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Prove

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

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

Thomas H. Huxley

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

George Gurdjieff

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein