Knowledge Quotes
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.Johann von Goethe
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
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
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.Thomas Carlyle
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.Heraclitus
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.Phillip Earl Stanhope
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.Steve Droke
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.Wilbur Wright
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.Erastus Flavel Beadle
Knowledge is love and light and vision.Helen Kelle
Knowledge is true opinion.Plato
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.Arabic Prove
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.Myron Tribus
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.Charles Dickens
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.Henry Ford
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteu
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 aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
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
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
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.John Locke
