Knowledge Quotes

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

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

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

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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.

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

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

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.