Knowledge Quotes

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

Knowledge is the key to making a difference.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today.

Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.