Knowledge Quotes & Sayings

~ As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ~

Charles Morgan

~ Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ~

Andrew Coyle Bradley

~ No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. ~

E. F. Schumacher

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

Marcus Garvey

~ Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ~

Arthur E. Waite

~ A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained. ~

James Madison

~ A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. ~

Joseph Story

~ Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Thomas Henry Huxley

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Carl Sagan

~ All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. ~

Immanuel Kant

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

Corliss Lamont

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

Rene Descartes

~ Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. ~

Plotinus

~ 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

~ Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. ~

Plotinus

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

Albert Einstein

~ Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who inhabit it, and the respect and acknowledgement of the spirits and elders. That is what it is to be Indian. ~

Navajo White Feather

~ Let us boldly implement what our ancestors practiced and take the time to bring forth the knowledge, values, ceremonies, social and political institutions that bring out the spirit of every human child, no matter what age. ~

David Wilkins Lumbee

~ Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and don't forget to acknowledge yourself and others. ~

Sofia Milos

~ Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. ~

Robin Morgan

~ The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. ~

Polykarp Kusch

~ A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ~

Aldous Huxley

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

~ In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~

Sandara Carey

~ The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge. ~

Unknown

~ Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations.... Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it.... ~

Caroline Myss

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