Knowledge Quotes

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
Pliny the elder, natural history - indeed, what is there that does not appear...
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
George bernard shaw - activity is the only road to knowledge....
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
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
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collie
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
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
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
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
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.
Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
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
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
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
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle, Metaphysics
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge is expensive.
Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.
Julie Morgenstern