Knowledge Quotes

Albert schweitze - to the question whether i am a pessimist or an...
Albert einstein, the world as i see it (autobio, 1934) - the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an...
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 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
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
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
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Prove
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashely Montagu
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Arthur Baldwin
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
John Kenneth Galbraith
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.
Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
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
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Shelley, incomplete, poets
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
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
Johnson
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collie
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Mark Rutherford
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.
Mark Twain
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Sid Taylo