Knowledge Quotes

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

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.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

Doubt grows with knowledge.