Knowledge Quotes
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
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
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.John Maurice Clark
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates, Law
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.Albert Schweitze
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
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.West African Saying
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.Carl R. Rogers
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
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.Robert Anthony
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
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
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.John Calvin
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.Walter Lippmann
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Arthur Baldwin
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.Plotinus
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Albert Einstein
Knowledge is expensive.Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
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)
All men by nature desire knowledge.Aristotle, Metaphysics
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
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
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
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 not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.Johann von Goethe
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.Socrates
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
