Knowledge Quotes

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Gain knowledge. It's valuable.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

Details are all there are.

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.