Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

knowledge

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

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

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

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

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

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

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

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

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

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

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

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Information is not knowledge.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

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

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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

Science is organized knowledge.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.

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

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

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

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.

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.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

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

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

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

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

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

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

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

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

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.