Famous Quotes
- The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Knowledge
- The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
- Irving Howe on Knowledge
- The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
- Jacques Lacan on Knowledge
- The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
- Dennis Potter on Knowledge
- The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
- Ralph W. Sockman on Knowledge
- The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
- The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
- John Redwood on Knowledge
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Knowledge
- The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
- Henri Poincare on Knowledge
- The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
- Thomas Huxley on Knowledge
- The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
- The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
- Albert Camus on Knowledge
- The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
- Phillip E. Johnson on Knowledge
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Knowledge
- The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
- The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
- Steven Seagal on Knowledge
- The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
- Robert D. Kaplan on Knowledge
- The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
- Daniel D. Palmer on Knowledge
- The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
- Evan Davis on Knowledge
- The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
- William Bligh on Knowledge
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- John Locke on Knowledge
- The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
- The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- Henry Ford on Knowledge
- The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein on Knowledge
- The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
- The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
- Freda Adler on Knowledge
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose on Knowledge
- The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
- Khalil Gibran on Knowledge
- The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
- The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
- The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
- Ernst Mach on Knowledge
- The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
- Townsend Harris on Knowledge
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James A. Baldwin on Knowledge
- The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
- Oliver Joseph Lodge on Knowledge
- The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
- Edward Thorndike on Knowledge
- The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
- The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
- Matthew Simpson on Knowledge
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard on Knowledge
- The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
- Seymour Papert on Knowledge
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
- The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
- Italo Calvino on Knowledge
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton on Knowledge
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- William Hazlitt on Knowledge
- The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
- Luther Burbank on Knowledge
- The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
- Henry Bolingbroke on Knowledge
- The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
- Ambrose Bierce on Knowledge
- The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Knowledge
- The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
- Pat Robertson on Knowledge
- The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
- Alan Cumming on Knowledge
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