Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

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

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

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.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

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!

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

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

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.