Knowledge Quotes

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

True words seem false.