Knowledge Quotes: Insights and Inspiration (Page 3)

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing"

"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

"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

"Chess is not only knowledge and logic"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Knowledge is never too dear"

Francis Walsingham, Celebrity

"I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

Enrico Fermi, Physicist

"Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered"

Abdallah II

"Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason"

Marie de France, Poet

"Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows"

Carlos Castenada, Writer

"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source"

Brigham Young, Leader

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

Maria Montessori, Educator

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

Sophocles, Author

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail"

David Hare, Playwright

"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, Philosopher

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God"

Voltaire, Writer

"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 doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

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

Cicero, Philosopher

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity"

Cicero, Philosopher

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist