Knowledge Quotes
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.John Adams
The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups.Clark Coleman
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
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
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.Vince Lombardi
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
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, The Confucian Analects
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Knowledge is true opinion.Plato
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)
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.Steven Runciman
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
Science is organized knowledge.Herbert Spence
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.Andr Maurois
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
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.Helen Hayes
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
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.H. L. Mencken
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 F. Will
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
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
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.Vincent Lombardi
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
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
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Laertius Diogenes
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
