Knowledge Quotes

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

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.

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

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

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.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

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

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.

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

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

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

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.