Knowledge Quotes

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

It is well for one to know more than he says.

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.

I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.

Humility is practical application of knowledge.