What Is Knowledge Quotes

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.

(Obama) really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.