- In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
- George Mikes on Knowledge
- In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
- Henry Miller on Knowledge
- In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Knowledge
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Knowledge
- In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
- Gertrude Jekyll on Knowledge
- In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
- Gael Garcia Bernal on Knowledge
- In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis.
- John Wycliffe on Knowledge
- In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
- Jean Piaget on Knowledge
- In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer on Knowledge
- In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
- David Icke on Knowledge
- In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
- A. N. Wilson on Knowledge
- In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
- Humphry Davy on Knowledge
- In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo on Knowledge
- Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
- Polykarp Kusch on Knowledge
- Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Knowledge
- Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein on Knowledge
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson on Knowledge
- Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
- International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
- Rebecca West on Knowledge
- Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
- Immanuel Kant on Knowledge
- Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
- Corliss Lamont on Knowledge
- Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
- Pierre Curie on Knowledge
- Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
- Paul Davies on Knowledge
- It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
- Thomas Friedman on Knowledge
- It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
- Paul Nurse on Knowledge
- It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
- James Lafferty on Knowledge
- It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
- It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
- Havelock Ellis on Knowledge
- It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
- Immanuel Kant on Knowledge
- It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
- It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
- Arnold H. Glasow on Knowledge
- It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
- Jeremy Taylor on Knowledge
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
- Marcel Proust on Knowledge
- It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
- Frederick Sanger on Knowledge
- It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
- Harriet Martineau on Knowledge
- It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi on Knowledge
- It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
- Joseph Wood Krutch on Knowledge
- It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss on Knowledge
- It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
- William Ellery Channing on Knowledge
- It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Knowledge
- It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
- Marilu Henner on Knowledge
- It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
- Dolley Madison on Knowledge
- It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
- Wilbur Wright on Knowledge
- It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
- Talcott Parsons on Knowledge
- It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
- Emma Thompson on Knowledge
- It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
- Talcott Parsons on Knowledge
- It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Knowledge
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein on Knowledge
- It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
- Henry James Sumner Maine on Knowledge
- It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
- Jean Piaget on Knowledge
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