Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

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

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

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

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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.

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.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

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

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.

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

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.

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.

The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.