Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

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

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

William Ralph Inge

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

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayna

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

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1

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 Will

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell