Knowledge Quotes
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.
When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.
Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.
Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.
The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.
All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.
One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.