Knowledge Quotes

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.