Quotes For Knowledge

• Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. Jeremy Collier

• It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell

• Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ralph Cudworth

• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker

• I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Yoshihiko Noda

• 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. G. I. Gurdjieff

• 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. Abigail Adams

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi

• If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too. Sigmar Gabriel

• Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. John Bates Clark

• The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston

• My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred. Frank Carlucci

• Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them. Carol Bellamy

• There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Aldous Huxley

• The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• 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. Lord Chesterfield

• Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. Havelock Ellis

• Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. James M. Baldwin

• It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. Emma Thompson

• Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. William James

• Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master. Giambattista Valli

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. Karl Jaspers

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e. e. cummings

• Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. David Hare

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

• When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. Marvin Minsky

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

• Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot

• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them. Anne Wilson Schaef

• I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. Barry White

• The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. John Jewel

• Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. Jesse James Garrett

• Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. David Amram

• Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. Ryszard Kapuscinski

• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. Herbert Spencer

• We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. Asa Gray

• Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. John Jewel

• I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. Marvin Minsky

• The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. David Bailey

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

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

• When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. Jimmy Carter

• Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. Scott Turow

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. Jack LaLanne

• The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein

• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? Humphry Davy

• All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle

• The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. Ernest Holmes

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

• Knowledge is the life of the mind. Abu Bakr

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

• But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer. Steven Hatfill

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

• Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure. John Cale

• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Alfred North Whitehead

• The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. William Bligh

• It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Marilu Henner

• I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable. Alonzo Mourning

• If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. Thomas Bulfinch

• He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. Henry Villard

• The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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

• I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35! Michael Caine

• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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

• I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Joe Wright

• For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. Robert Scheer

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

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. Orison Swett Marden

• It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. Doug Coupland

• Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Samuel Johnson

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

• There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others. Bob Kerrey

• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. Lord Byron

• Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. Juan Cole

• Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. Cat Stevens

• Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Thomas Fuller

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

• One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation. Luc Montagnier

• We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. Charles Caleb Colton

• 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. Confucius

• To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. Frederick Soddy

• Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. Arthur Machen

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

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge

• The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. Phillip E. Johnson

• I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. Ayumi Hamasaki

• We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. Rory Bremner

• I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. Kurt Russell

• Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse. Zhuangzi

• Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. Andrew Coyle Bradley

• I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. Frederick Sanger

• A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. Henry Mayhew

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman

• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Ralph Thomas Walker

• In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet. David Icke

• 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. Van Wyck Brooks