Knowledge Quotes

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Information is not knowledge.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"”as I am surprisingly often"”why I bother to get up in the mornings.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The years teach much which the days never know.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading"ﾂｦis the search for a difficult pleasure.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

We must know. We will know.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

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.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one—and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

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.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Knowledge is power.

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself

Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

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.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

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.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Science is organized knowledge.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

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.

As for me, all I know is I know nothing.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....

To know her was to love her.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

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

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

You know more than you think you do.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it"¦My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true — but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

Knowledge is power.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year — ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge — and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

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.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing expertise and knowledge.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge

I know everything except myself.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Knowledge is only potential power.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.