Knowledge Quotes

Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know ...

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how ...

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. O...

We’re starting to behave as if we’ve reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is un...

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impuls...

Some people still think knowledge is power.

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf ...

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend t...

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were...

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim...

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht w...

he who will not economize will have to agonize

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, an...

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we...

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

Darkness feeds on apathy.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now...

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thro...

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated t...

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague t...

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The in...

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkp...

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle...

I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the ...

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red o...

Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red o...

I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an ...

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowled...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition...

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...

Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing syst...

Awareness ultimately has no boundaries. It exists in this world but endlessly goes beyond it. The wo...

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and exp...

Moreover, knowledge and investigation help promote wonder they do not destroy it. Whatever our taste...

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He m...

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehens...

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th...

There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we kn...

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was ...

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come th...

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes b...

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman ...

for whenever men are right they are not young

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody ...

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge...

Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are f...

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an ho...

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge,...

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of suc...

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,Or any searcher know by mortal mind,Veil after veil will lift--...

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing to...

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a m...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly i...

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than...

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result...

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundame...

THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away...

There is no Frigate like a book.

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punis...

Weak and narrow are the powers implanted in the limbs of men; many the woes that fall on them and bl...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is...

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the ...

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.