Popular

Browse Popular Topics

Knowledge Quotes

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
– Samuel Johnson
More quotes by Samuel Johnson
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
– Stanley Fish
More quotes by Stanley Fish
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.
– Arthur E. Waite
More quotes by Arthur E. Waite
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
– Johannes Tauler
More quotes by Johannes Tauler
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
– Charles Babbage
More quotes by Charles Babbage
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
– Oliver Goldsmith
More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
– John Olver
More quotes by John Olver
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
– John Jewel
More quotes by John Jewel
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
– William Glasser
More quotes by William Glasser
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
– Jeb Bush
More quotes by Jeb Bush
As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.
– Jurgen Klinsmann
More quotes by Jurgen Klinsmann
As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
– Brit Marling
More quotes by Brit Marling
As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
– Harvey Weinstein
More quotes by Harvey Weinstein
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
– Chaim Potok
More quotes by Chaim Potok
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
– Laurel Clark
More quotes by Laurel Clark
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
– Herbert Simon
More quotes by Herbert Simon
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
– Wislawa Szymborska
More quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
– Duane G. Carey
More quotes by Duane G. Carey
And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.
– Carol Bellamy
More quotes by Carol Bellamy
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
– John Sergeant Wise
More quotes by John Sergeant Wise
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
– Frederick Sanger
More quotes by Frederick Sanger
And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.
– Betty Hill
More quotes by Betty Hill
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
– Venerable Bede
More quotes by Venerable Bede
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
– Thomas a Kempis
More quotes by Thomas a Kempis
Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
– Emmitt Smith
More quotes by Emmitt Smith
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
– Franz Grillparzer
More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
– David Amram
More quotes by David Amram
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
– Leonardo da Vinci
More quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.
– Ruben Studdard
More quotes by Ruben Studdard
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
– Walter Benjamin
More quotes by Walter Benjamin
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
– Nils-Axel Morner
More quotes by Nils-Axel Morner
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
– Maria Monk
More quotes by Maria Monk
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
– James M. Baldwin
More quotes by James M. Baldwin
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
– Trofim Lysenko
More quotes by Trofim Lysenko
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
– James Prescott Joule
More quotes by James Prescott Joule
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
– F. H. Bradley
More quotes by F. H. Bradley
According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
– Virchand Gandhi
More quotes by Virchand Gandhi
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
– T. S. Eliot
More quotes by T. S. Eliot
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
– Trofim Lysenko
More quotes by Trofim Lysenko
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
– Bela Lugosi
More quotes by Bela Lugosi
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
– Hippocrates
More quotes by Hippocrates
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.
– Pratibha Patil
More quotes by Pratibha Patil
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.
– Richard Leakey
More quotes by Richard Leakey
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
– Samuel Butler
More quotes by Samuel Butler
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
– Khalil Gibran
More quotes by Khalil Gibran
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
– Wilhelm Dilthey
More quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
– Charlie Trotter
More quotes by Charlie Trotter
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
– Lafcadio Hearn
More quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
– Joseph Story
More quotes by Joseph Story
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
– Henry Mayhew
More quotes by Henry Mayhew
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
More quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
– Eddie Van Halen
More quotes by Eddie Van Halen
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
– William Alexander
More quotes by William Alexander
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
– Hannes Alfven
More quotes by Hannes Alfven
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
– Peter Lewis Allen
More quotes by Peter Lewis Allen
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
– Roald Amundsen
More quotes by Roald Amundsen
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
More quotes by Saint Thomas Aquinas
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
– Aristotle
More quotes by Aristotle
Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing such expertise and knowledge.
– Owen Arthur
More quotes by Owen Arthur
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
– Isaac Asimov
More quotes by Isaac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
– Isaac Asimov
More quotes by Isaac Asimov
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
– Brooks Atkinson
More quotes by Brooks Atkinson
If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
– Sir Francis Bacon
More quotes by Sir Francis Bacon
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
– Sir Francis Bacon
More quotes by Sir Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
– Sir Francis Bacon
More quotes by Sir Francis Bacon
It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of the Amazons; but the information gathered by their Government, from various expeditions undertaken on a grand scale, was long withheld from the rest of the world, through the jealous policy which ruled in their colonial affairs.
– Henry Walter Bates
More quotes by Henry Walter Bates
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty-how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
– Henry Ward Beecher
More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
– Henry Ward Beecher
More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
– Henry Ward Beecher
More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
– Josh Billings
More quotes by Josh Billings
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
– George Boole
More quotes by George Boole
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
More quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
More quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
– Bertolt Brecht
More quotes by Bertolt Brecht
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
– Robert Bridges
More quotes by Robert Bridges
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
– David Bruce
More quotes by David Bruce
Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
– Pearl S. Buck
More quotes by Pearl S. Buck
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
– Leo Buscaglia
More quotes by Leo Buscaglia
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
– Lord Byron
More quotes by Lord Byron
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
– Roger Babson
More quotes by Roger Babson
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.
– Sudie Back
More quotes by Sudie Back
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
– Roger Bacon
More quotes by Roger Bacon
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
– Roger Bacon
More quotes by Roger Bacon
The Psalms are selected by the Christian from the whole Bible, as they were by the Jew from the books in his possession - the Old Testament ... nor will there ever be in the world such an advance in religious light, experience, and knowledge, that they will lose their relative place as connected with the exercises of practical piety.
– Albert Barnes
More quotes by Albert Barnes
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
– Orlando A. Battista
More quotes by Orlando A. Battista
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.
– Gary Becker
More quotes by Gary Becker
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
– Vissarion Belinsky
More quotes by Vissarion Belinsky
For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life.
– Clive Bell
More quotes by Clive Bell
When knowledge inhabits a print space, it seems natural to want to own it. When it enters electronic space, it seems equally natural to surrender it.
– Doug Brent
More quotes by Doug Brent
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
– Avery Brooks
More quotes by Avery Brooks
Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy.
– Franklin Buchanan
More quotes by Franklin Buchanan
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
– Frederick Buechner
More quotes by Frederick Buechner
Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.
– Conrad Bums
More quotes by Conrad Bums
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
– Richard de Bury
More quotes by Richard de Bury
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
– John Calvin
More quotes by John Calvin
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
– Albert Camus
More quotes by Albert Camus
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
– Thomas Carlyle
More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
– George Washington Carver
More quotes by George Washington Carver
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
– John Cheever
More quotes by John Cheever