What Is Knowledge Quotes

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry

Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.