Knowledge Quotes

• In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Guidance

• Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

  

  Clifford Stoll
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Understanding

• I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Motivated

• You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Source

• Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Inspiration

• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Personality

• True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Self

• They have that inner knowledge that (makes them) capable of going in, being tired and making the game come to them, how they want to play the game.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Knowledge
  • Tired

• Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

  

  Italo Calvino
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Solidity

• I know everything except myself.

  

  Francois Villon
  • Knowledge
  • Knows

• Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Miracles

• Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.

  

  John Collison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Fear
  • Slavery
  • Unknown

• Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

  

  David Icke
  • Knowledge
  • Period
  • Safety

• The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Way
  • Knowledge

• I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Knowledge
  • Survival

• Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

  

  Frank Borman
  • World
  • God
  • May

• A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Knowledge
  • Smattering

• Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Knowledge
  • Economics
  • Agreement

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