Knowledge Quotes

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

I know you even under the skin.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.