Knowledge Quotes

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

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

"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

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh"

Herodotus, Historian

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance"

Herodotus, Historian

"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge"

Rebecca West, Author

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future"

Lord Acton, Historian

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives"

James Madison, President

"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power"

Mark Rutherford, Writer

"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty"

James Madison, President

"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

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

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

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