What Is Knowledge Quotes

If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

Garner knowledge, by any means possible

As I've gotten older, and now that my kids are starting to do what they do, I am now really focusing on sharing my knowledge and insights with them to help guide them on their journeys.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.