Knowledge Quotes

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Knowledge is justified belief.

Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Know what you do not know.

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

Frustration begins where knowledge ends

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.