Knowledge Quotes

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.

Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.

No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.