knowledge Quotes
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J Boorstin
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing
Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have
Robert Frost
To understand spiritual intention and insight is the knowledge of the rock people. Within each of us is the story of yesterday.
Wolf Moondance
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labor from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eyewitnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but I shall be content if it is judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it. My history has been composed to be an everlasting possession, not the showpiece of an hour.
Thucydides
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time
Owen Felltham
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw
There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
