Top 100 Of Knowledge Quotes
#1. He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about;
Eric Jerome Dickey
#2. Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#3. IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
Ambrose Bierce
#4. While the matriarch operates on the basis of knowledge, the rest of the herd operates on the basis of trust.
Frans De Waal
#5. intent was honest, he really did want to help and he did have a lot of knowledge about antiques since he'd been running his family pawn shop for almost a decade. She knew they could trust him and she filed the information away for later in case they got desperate for money.
Leighann Dobbs
#6. The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Buddhist teachings are meant to awaken our true self, not merely to add to our storehouse of knowledge. From
Thich Nhat Hanh
#8. For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.
Therese Walsh
#9. Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.
Roger Bacon
#10. I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
Thomas Browne
#11. The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.
John Carroll
#12. A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#14. It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum
Zig Ziglar
#16. Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being ... It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#17. A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
Plato
#18. The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."
Benjamin Disraeli
#19. We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart.
Muriel Wace
#20. Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
P. J. O'Rourke
#21. A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F. Drucker
#22. All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.
Thomas Sprat
#23. A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.
Jhoon Goo Rhee
#24. With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
James G. Frazer
#25. The transmission of knowledge is in itself an erotic act.
Alan Bennett
#27. I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.
David Ogilvy
#28. Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.
Henry George
#29. There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.
William Stanley Jevons
#30. Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#31. Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.
Gary Zukav
#32. I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue ... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
Francois Rabelais
#33. We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
#34. What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.
Joseph M. Juran
#35. I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.
Sally O'Reilly
#36. Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.
Chandler Burr
#37. Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police.
A character's response to a discussion about eating from the tree of knowledge.
Alasdair Gray
#38. He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
#40. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
Dada Bhagwan
#41. The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion.
Dean Koontz
#42. That was his tactic. Make them want know something they never wanted to know. Lure them into the trap of knowledge.
Sahana Epari
#43. Wisdom is an artful method - a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.
Gregory Koukl
#44. The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.
Malcolm X
#45. If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?
Douglas W. Phillips
#46. It was only a little piece of knowledge but it felt as shiny and solid as a new twenty-cent piece in my hand to know i could find the thing that was wrong.
Karen Foxlee
#47. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes ... my people die for lack of knowledge.
Blaise Tshibwabwa
#49. Thus historical descriptions are necessarily ordered by the present state of knowledge, they increase with every transformation and never cease, in turn, to break with themselves
Michel Foucault
#50. Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#51. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Marilynne Robinson
#52. But it's not only the breadth and quantity of knowledge that has made medicine complicated. It is also the execution - the practical matter of what knowledge requires clinicians to do.
Atul Gawande
#53. Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
Julian Baggini
#54. But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#55. The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.
Rajneesh
#56. No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#57. The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
Douglas Hofstadter
#58. This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?
Myles Horton
#59. Love of knowledge can draw on its credit indefinitely ... love of knowledge is iron-clad.
Lydia Millet
#60. Language skill requires a bit of knowledge about how we answer the question: How do you know that Blumph is true? Plus a smidgen of Logic. B.S. Detecting gives you this because without it, Pogo's Owl may be talking about you: "You may as well quit your thinkin'. It ain't improvin' your talkin' none.
Mary Thompson
#61. Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.
H.P. Lovecraft
#64. With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.
David Weinberger
#65. The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#66. A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.
Sathya Sai Baba
#68. Like all good teachers, he loves the moment of revelation, when the light of knowledge passes to his pupil.
Rae Carson
#69. Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
Carlos Castaneda
#70. 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.
William Hazlitt
#71. Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.
Amadou Hampate Ba
#72. We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not possess it.
John Stuart Mill
#75. At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.
Rajiv Joseph
#76. There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#77. Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.
Alexander Kotov
#78. We would be in real trouble if everybody in GCHQ was like him, but we can tolerate a higher proportion of such people than most organizations. We put up with a number of people like him. Figure 66 James Ellis. (photo credit 6.4) One of Ellis's greatest qualities was his breadth of knowledge.
Simon Singh
#80. There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
Joseph Joubert
#81. Today here and now, at the age of four, we eat from the tree of knowledge and have fallen from grace.
Osho
#82. Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
George Washington
#84. Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.
Albert Einstein
#86. The reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'!
Pedro Okoro
#87. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon
#88. Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
Robert Graves
#89. Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. But the whole idea of knowledge, even, or especially, of oneself and one's own inner states, attained by direct contact and not dependent on theoretical and conceptual assumptions, is absurd.
Ernest Gellner
#93. Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.
John Ruskin
#94. It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing
#95. Is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? Most undoubtedly.
Plato
#97. elusive nature of knowledge-based work requires different measurement and control methods compared to creating tangible deliverables from physical materials.
Terry Doerscher
#98. It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.
Theodore J. Kaczynski
#99. It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.
Tim Field
#100. Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Jonathan Swift
