Knowledge Quotes
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.Christine Lane
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.Kahlil Gibran
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.Rusty Berkus
All men by nature desire knowledge.Aristotle, Metaphysics
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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
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 Will
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Author Unknown
Knowledge is power.Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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
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 no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Amy Grant
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.Pliny the Elde
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.Henry Louis Mencken
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.Immanuel Kant
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
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)
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.H. L. Mencken
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
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
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
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
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
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
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
