Knowledge Quotes

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

No one can take it away from you.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it – even though others may hesitate or differ.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.