Knowledge - Quotes & Sayings

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Barbara McClintock

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Robert Staughton Lynd

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Kofi Annan

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

I want to be strong because you believe in me. You have to trust me. I give my knowledge to you. That is my philosophy.

Claudio Ranieri

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Mr. T

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.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Nancy Gibbs

If your knowledge is in your hands and in your mind, then nobody can take it away from you. Be kind and be on time! You never know who you're talking to - the waitress today could be the producer tomorrow, so it pays to be kind to everyone.

GloZell

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

Evel Knievel

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Jack LaLanne

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Lee Iacocca

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.

Tom Holland

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

Carl Jung

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Marcel Proust

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

Joseph Stiglitz

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Bill Gates

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

H. P. Lovecraft

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Leonardo da Vinci

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Vera Farmiga

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

V. S. Naipaul

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Janet Jackson

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Stephen Covey

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

Thomas J. Watson

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

Tadao Ando

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

Mark Pocan

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Milton Friedman

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Charles Stanley

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Leo Buscaglia

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.

Samuel Johnson

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Phillips Brooks

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

Zhuangzi