Quotes on knowledge

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Author: John Acton

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Author: John Adams

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Author: Scott Adams

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

Author: Joseph Addison

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.

Author: Freda Adler

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Author: Alexander Alekhine

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

Author: Dante Alighieri

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Author: James Allen

Life is a book with countless chapters, each one filled with lessons waiting to be learned.

Author: Emily Roberts

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

Author: Tadao Ando

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Author: Kofi Annan

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Author: Joyce Appleby

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Author: Louis Aragon

Research is creating new knowledge.

Author: Neil Armstrong

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

Author: Matthew Arnold

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Author: Isaac Asimov

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Author: Isaac Asimov

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Author: Avicenna

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Author: Avicenna

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Author: Charles Babbage

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Author: Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Author: Charles Babbage

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Author: Charles Babbage

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Author: Francis Bacon

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Author: Roger Bacon

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Author: Liberty Bailey

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Author: Abu Bakr

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Author: Abu Bakr

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Author: James Baldwin

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Author: Roland Barthes

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Author: James Beattie

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Author: Henry Beecher

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Author: Vissarion Belinsky

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Author: Daniel Bell

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Author: Walter Benjamin

True intelligence is not in knowing everything, but in learning something new every day.

Author: Albert Einstein

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.

Author: Daniel Bernoulli

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Author: Mary Bethune

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Author: Theodore Bikel

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

Author: Josh Billings

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Author: William Blake

Wisdom is not solely defined by age, but by the depth of one's understanding and the humility to always keep learning.

Author: Maria Mitchell

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Author: Mary Blakely

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Author: Hans Blix

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

Author: David Bohm

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.

Author: Henry Bolingbroke

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Author: Emma Bonino

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.

Author: Sonny Bono

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

Author: Charles Bowen

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Author: Andrew Bradley

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.

Author: Nathaniel Branden

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

Author: Bertolt Brecht

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Author: John Bright

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Author: Jacob Bronowski

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Author: Van Brooks

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Author: Harry Browne

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Author: Thomas Bulfinch

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Author: William Burroughs

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Author: Leo Buscaglia

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Author: Samuel Butler

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.

Author: Italo Calvino

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.

Author: Albert Camus

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Author: Karel Capek

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Author: Stokely Carmichael

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Author: Giacomo Casanova

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

Author: Carlos Castaneda

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Author: Richard Cecil

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

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

Author: Aime Cesaire

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Author: Chanakya

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

Author: Anton Chekhov

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

Author: Lord Chesterfield

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Author: Marcus Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

Author: Guy Clark

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Author: Albert Claude

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Author: Richard Cobden

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.

Author: Robert Collier

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Author: Charles Colton

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

Author: Charles Colton

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Author: Auguste Comte

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.

Author: Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Author: Confucius

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

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

Life is a journey best traveled with an open heart and a curious mind, for in the pursuit of knowledge lies the truest adventure.

Author: Grace Lee

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Author: William Davenant

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?

Author: Humphry Davy

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

Author: Christopher Dawson

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Author: Robert Delaunay

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

Author: Paul Deman

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

Author: W. Deming

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Author: W. Deming

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Author: John Denham

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

Author: Rene Descartes

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Author: Princess Diana

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Author: George Dorsey

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

Author: James Douglas

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

Author: David Douglass

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Author: Arthur Doyle

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Author: Arthur Doyle

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Author: Fran Drescher

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

Author: John Drinkwater

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Author: Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Author: Peter Drucker

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

Author: Will Durant

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

Author: Albrecht Durer

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

Author: Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.

Author: Albert Einstein

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Author: Sergei Eisenstein

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Author: George Eliot

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Author: T. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Author: T. Eliot

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Author: T. Eliot

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.

Author: Havelock Ellis

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Author: Ralph Emerson

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.

Author: Douglas Engelbart

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Author: Brian Eno

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Author: Enya

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Author: Enrico Fermi

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

Author: Enrico Fermi

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Author: Stanley Fish

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

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

Author: Milton Friedman

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

Author: Toshihiko Fukui

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

Author: Margaret Fuller

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Author: Thomas Fuller

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Author: Peter Garrett

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Author: Carl Gauss

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

Author: Timothy Geithner

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Author: Khalil Gibran

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Author: Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Author: Khalil Gibran

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Author: Khalil Gibran

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

Author: Walter Gilbert