Knowledge Quotes
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.Arabic Prove
The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.James A. Perkins
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.Thomas H. Huxley
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.George Bernard Shaw
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.Nathan M. Pusey
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.Saadi
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
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
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.Joachim du Bellay
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.Thomas Carlyle
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.Henry Louis Mencken
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.Samuel Johnson
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.Charles Darwin
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
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
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.William James
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - This is knowledge.Confucius
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.Bhagavad Gita
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.Mark Twain
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.Will Durant
