Knowledge Quotes

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

We bless and curse ourselves.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

To know all things is not permitted.