Knowledge Quotes

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.