Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Samuel johnson - the fountain of content must spring up in the...
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
Socrates - true knowledge exists in knowing that you know...
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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 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 taken all knowledge to by my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Cicero
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Matthew Henry
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
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
Alvin Toffle
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Author Unknown
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de Beauvoi
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fulle
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.
US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
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
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.
Gene Wolfe
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Prove
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Mark Rutherford
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
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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.
Julie Morgenstern
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
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, 1955
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
Unknown