Knowledge Quotes

"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"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

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts"

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

"Wonder is the desire for knowledge"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"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, Critic

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

Socrates, Philosopher

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"The true method of knowledge is experiment"

William Blake, Poet

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

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy"

Camille Paglia, Author

"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it"

Mary Astell, Writer

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

John Calvin, Theologian

"I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth"

Barry White, Musician

"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

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

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South"

Roald Amundsen, Explorer

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

James A. Baldwin, Author

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

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body"

Marcel Proust, Author

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"Science is organized knowledge"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

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

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

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

Karl Popper, Philosopher

"Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

"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

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

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

Henry Miller, Writer

"He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"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

"I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

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