Knowledge Quotes

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
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Ludwig van beethoven - music - - the one incorporeal entrance into the...
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Johann wolfgang von goethe - we know accurately only when we know little; with...
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.
US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna
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
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells
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
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.
Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
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
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteu
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
Ludwig Boerne
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
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
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
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
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