Knowledge - Quotes & Sayings
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey HepburnHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PlatoWe are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin FranklinReal knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
ConfuciusThe best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David BaileyKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton ChekhovIt takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas SowellCarry 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.
Princess DianaWe cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
Petra NemcovaDiscussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert QuillenA good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
PlatoThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinTrue knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
SocratesThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleBeware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawTo know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
ConfuciusIt is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Wilbur WrightRisk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren BuffettTo acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos SavantThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovResearch is creating new knowledge.
Neil ArmstrongKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonOpinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
PlatoOne time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.
Shiv NadarKnowledge is power.
Francis BaconAllah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
Hakeem OlajuwonThere are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis DiderotSome people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert AnthonyWhen people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
James A. ForbesTo know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
SocratesKnowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin MorganImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
HerodotusThe end of all knowledge should be service to others.
Cesar ChavezThe improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John LockePleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
DeWitt ClintonThose who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
Lao TzuKnowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi HendrixKnowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Brian O'DriscollTo know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus CopernicusLife is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. LawrenceReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John LockeThe greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. BoorstinThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheFor the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Roger BaconProbability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George BooleWithout knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu BakrKnowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob BronowskiHumility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William PennKnowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker