Top 100 Quotes About More Knowledge
#1. To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.
Hugh Laurie
#3. The more you can learn and the more knowledge you can retain, the more effective you'll become at what it is you choose to do.
Michael Harris
#4. Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
#5. If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Mickey Spillane
#6. No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
A. Ray Olpin
#7. I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
George Bernard Shaw
#8. Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.
Walter Guido Vincenti
#9. The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.
Plato
#10. I love people that read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. They want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it.
Nicholas Browne
#11. A creative mind craves for more knowledge and it desires to solve problems for others.
Euginia Herlihy
#12. Consumers deserve the right to know what's in their food - and obviously, most people want that choice. It's hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.
Michael Specter
#13. At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.
William T. Vollmann
#14. I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
Philippe Petit
#15. Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.
Criss Jami
#16. He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
William Penn
#17. Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
Stuart Wilde
#18. God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.
Jesse Duplantis
#19. Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
Alvin Toffler
#20. We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
Daniel Dennett
#21. As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.
Rob Gronkowski
#22. The breach between the mind and body can't be healed by more knowledge."
"Then we'll go shopping. It's the only way to solve a crisis.
Barry Webster
#23. We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne
#24. The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.
W.W. Sawyer
#25. True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.
Hugh Nibley
#26. All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.
Jay Maisel
#27. Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.
Thomas Sowell
#28. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love
Erich Fromm
#29. Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge.
Ana Monnar
#30. The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.
Mason Cooley
#31. What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
Thomas Sowell
#32. We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.
Sigmund Freud
#33. The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.
Edgar Cayce
#34. The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.'
Rajneesh
#35. Life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.
Madeleine L'Engle
#36. It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding.
Desmond Tutu
#37. The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Tony Orlando
#38. The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.
Nouman Ali Khan
#39. Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.
Bram Stoker
#40. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.
Anonymous
#41. You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.
Clint Eastwood
#42. I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.
Future
#43. Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Ariana Grande
#44. The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
Benjamin Rush
#45. I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.
George Lucas
#47. Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
#48. We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.
Marcelo Gleiser
#49. In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.
George Lucas
#50. We haven't evolved in our understanding about spirituality or gained more knowledge about it. What we've done was create more organizations based on the exact same principles, so that everyone can be happy and worship or not whoever they want, while interpreting the same words in their own way.
Daniel Marques
#51. There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.
Jane McGonigal
#52. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!
Calvin Coolidge
#53. Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
Timothy Leary
#54. Do something that feels good in the mornings! It will help you to setup your day to take in more knowledge and understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom.
Martin R. Lemieux
#55. The more you know, the more connections you can make. The more you know, the more you can know. Your foundations are greater. The more knowledge you have in your head onto which you can hang new information, the easier it will be to learn new things.
Lewis Smile
#56. Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider; girls go to college to get more knowledge.
James C. Dobson
#57. Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#58. All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc.
Erik Naggum
#59. The more knowledge you have, the better-equipped you are to tackle any challenge you'll ever face.
Anonymous
#60. The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
J.C. Ryle
#61. Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.
Bryant McGill
#62. Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
J. Arthur Thomson
#63. The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Abu Bakr
#64. From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.
E. O. Wilson
#65. The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906.
David McCullough
#66. A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.
Jack Sharkey
#67. The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.
Rajneesh
#68. As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.
Fred Kavli
#69. Never think that you have reached the final stage of knowledge and nobody knows more than yourself. Remember! Above everyone endowed with knowledge is another endowed with more knowledge (12:76)
Anonymous
#70. What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
Blaise Pascal
#71. The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.
John Friend
#72. The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions to human memories.
Frederick G. Kilgour
#73. More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.
Baris Gencel
#74. Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#75. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
Georges St-Pierre
#76. AI's ability to recognize visual categories and images is now pretty close to what human beings can manage, and probably better than a lot of people's, actually. AI can have more knowledge of detailed categories, like animals and so on.
Stuart J. Russell
#77. The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
Alexander Pope
#78. More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Samuel Johnson
#79. People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
Tom Clancy
#80. There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.
Oliver Goldsmith
#81. 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
#82. You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available!
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. Less fear, more courage.
Less doubt, more faith.
Less talking, more action.
Less ignorance, more knowledge.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
Sivananda
#86. Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.
J. William Fulbright
#87. Nothing earns better interest than judicious questions, and the man who invests in more knowledge of the business than he has to have in order to hold his job has capital with which to buy a mortgage on a better one.
George Horace Lorimer
#88. New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
#89. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Henry David Thoreau
#90. Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
#91. And so you should." He again assessed the newly replaced windows and repaired roof, then clapped Mack on the shoulder. "It's a good thing you're doing. And if you take time to share your knowledge with the boys, it'll give them much more than a skill. It'll give them hope.
Deeanne Gist
#92. What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!
Steve Maraboli
#93. Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.
J.K. Rowling
#94. On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.
Karl Jaspers
#95. The Titanic was in more senses than one a fool's paradise. There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her blind strength will always be more than his match.
Filson Young
#96. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
#97. The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.
Pierre Berton
#98. You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Isaac Newton
#99. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
Ruth Ozeki
#100. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
Swami Vivekananda
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