Knowledge Quotes
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.Juvenal
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
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.Camille Paglia
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.Sophocles, Trachiniae
There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Conan Doyle
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.Voltaire
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
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 in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
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
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
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
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
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
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.Ted Morgan
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.Plotinus
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.Arlene Raven
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin H. Fische
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.Ovid
Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.Myron Tribus
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Knowledge is true opinion.Plato
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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 Elder, Natural History
Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.Samuel Johnson
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
