Knowledge Quotes

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

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.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

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.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

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

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

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

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.