Knowledge Quotes

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.