Knowledge Quotes

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

You must become like yourself.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

What empowers me in my daily work and life is the knowledge that I will be guided, if I let go of my need to control. That I need only to leave space for grace to work in me.

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.