Knowledge Quotes

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

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

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

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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.