Knowledge Quotes

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

The ideal engineer is a composite... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

N. W. Dougherty, 1955

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.

William Bake

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

George Gurdjieff

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Saadi

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylo

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

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)

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Andr Maurois

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayna

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Albert Schweitze

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann von Goethe

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteu

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteu

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

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