Knowledge Quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge is power.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.