Knowledge Quotes
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.Anais Nin
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.Voltaire
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.Henry Ford
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.Plotinus
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.Albert Einstein
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Author Unknown
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.George F. Will
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin H. Fische
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.George Bernard Shaw
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.Charles Dickens
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Socrates
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Laertius Diogenes
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
Play is the beginning of knowledge.George Dorsey
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.Steve Droke
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.Eric Hoffe
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.Saadi
The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.Ted Morgan
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.Mark Twain
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.Charles Hodge
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw
