Knowledge Quotes

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural backgrou...

Those swift to think are not always secure.

Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen it brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but ha...

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—...

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would ha...

The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance...

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

Wandering across the vast room, I stopped at a set of shelves as high as the ceiling, and holding ab...

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These ...

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the...

When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I i...

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for...

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among...

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, G...

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on...

Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institut...

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to trai...

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health...

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their f...

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowl...

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disord...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum ...

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd...

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec...

The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our co...

The world needs all types of minds.

My closest relation is myself.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and in...

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so ...

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the pota...

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer strea...

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out...

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never...

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...

You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to d...

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habi...

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choos...

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not ori...

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...

The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the l...

That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the sc...

We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of go...

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is...

You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know a...

Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in th...

If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contra...

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is g...

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is...

A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ag...

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yo...

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if thing...

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and t...

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own c...

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing wha...

Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we ...

We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we saile...

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps chan...

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...