Knowledge Quotes
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation
There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.
The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.