Knowledge Quotes: Insights and Inspiration (Page 2)

"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge"

"To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth"

Sophocles, Author

"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The only source of knowledge is experience"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"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"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance"

Henry Miller, Writer

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price"

Juvenal, Poet

"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

"G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis"

John Wycliffe, Theologian

"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill"

Wilbur Wright, Inventor

"To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science"

Hannes Alfven, Scientist

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business"

Dolley Madison, First Lady

"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, Philosopher

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge"

Voltaire, Writer

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow"

Cicero, Philosopher

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