What Is Knowledge Quotes

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

There's lots of people - this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

All difficulties are easy when they are known.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

A belief is an uneducated guess.

There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge – the light of truth.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].