Knowledge Quotes

Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

All men by nature desire knowledge.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.