Famous Quotes
- If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
- Polykarp Kusch on Knowledge
- If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
- Matthew Simpson on Knowledge
- Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
- Thucydides on Knowledge
- Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi on Knowledge
- Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
- William Shakespeare on Knowledge
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin on Knowledge
- Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
- Marcel Proust on Knowledge
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein on Knowledge
- Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
- Jimmy Wales on Knowledge
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
- Terry Eagleton on Knowledge
- Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
- Jane Porter on Knowledge
- In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
- George Bernard Shaw on Knowledge
- In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks we now need to support the providers.
- Jose Serrano on Knowledge
- In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
- Nathaniel Branden on Knowledge
- In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
- James H. Breasted on Knowledge
- In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
- Janet Jackson on Knowledge
- In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
- Janet Jackson on Knowledge
- In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
- George Herbert on Knowledge
- 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
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