Knowledge Quotes

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.