Knowledge Quotes & Sayings

~ Knowledge, like energy, expands; it is not weakened when it is expended between people. The force of creation that results is ever increasing in its power, its magnificence, and in its impact. ~

Linda Chandler

~ Knowledge is power if you know about the right person. ~

Ethel Watts Mumford

~ Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ~

Kathleen Norias

~ One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ~

Thomas Huxley

~ It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness calling their denial knowledge. ~

George Eliot

~ Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance. ~

Plato

~ a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term philosopher. ~

Alfred Korzybski

~ We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (the actual use of language in concrete situations). ~

Noam Chomsky

~ The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge. ~

Daniel J. Boorstin

~ Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. ~

Marilyn Ferguson

~ Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. ~

William Penn

~ Our treasure lies in the beehives of our knowledge. We are perpetually on our way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. The only thing that lies close to our heart is the desire to bring something home to the hive. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Samuel Johnson

~ It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. ~

Edward W. Ziegler

~ Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. ~

John Locke

~ Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. ~

Avery Brooks

~ The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. ~

Henry Miller

~ This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions. ~

Daniel Webster

~ Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ~

Trofim Lysenko

~ If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us. ~

Francis Schaeffer

~ To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. ~

Socrates

~ The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. ~

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

~ An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. ~

Arnold Bennett

~ It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended. ~

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

~ Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ~

Albert Camus

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