Knowledge Quotes

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day

Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I know everything except myself.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.