Knowledge Quotes
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.Blaise Pascal
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
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
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.Unknown
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
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.John Maurice Clark
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.Thomas H. Huxley
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.Voltaire
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
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.Native American
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.Wilbur Wright
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
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
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.Thomas Arnold
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.August Hare
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
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.John Adams
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.Maria Mitchell
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.Lillian Smith
