Knowledge Quotes
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
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
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
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is expensive.Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.Carl Jung
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
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, 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
Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.Rabbi David Wolpe
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.Gen. Peyton C. March
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.Johann von Goethe
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.T. S. Eliot
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.Albert Schweitze
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.Samuel Johnson
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
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.Helen Kelle
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.John Calvin
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
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
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.George Bernard Shaw
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.Kahlil Gibran
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
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.Samuel Smiles
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
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - This is knowledge.Confucius
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
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
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
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.Fred A. Manske, Jr.
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.Mark Rutherford
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
