Knowledge Quotes: Insights and Inspiration (Page 6)

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge"

"Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

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

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down"

George Eliot, Author

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another"

William James, Philosopher

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Research is creating new knowledge"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge"

David Hume, Philosopher

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"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"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

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

Juvenal, Poet

"It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist