Knowledge Quotes

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

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.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.