What Is Knowledge Quotes

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.