Knowledge Quotes

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

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

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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.

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.

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

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.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.