Knowledge Quotes

"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows"

"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other"

Novalis, Poet

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"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"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"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"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"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"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey"

Marcel Proust, Author

"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"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"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"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"To be educated is to know God and His Word, and to live according to that knowledge"

Clement of Alexandra, Theologian

"Knowledge is not something to be acquired from without; it must be drawn from within"

Clement of Alexandra, Theologian

"There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

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