Knowledge Quotes

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Information is not knowledge.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.