What Is Knowledge Quotes

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

Now that you have the knowledge of the gospel, you're called to do better.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to drop chilly knowledge straight into his brain.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties.

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need to be reminded of that.

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.