What Is Knowledge Quotes

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

Knowledge can protect you much better than a strong castle!

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!