Knowledge Quotes

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.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

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.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

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.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

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.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

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

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

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

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

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

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

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.