Knowledge Quotes

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

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.