Knowledge Quotes
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Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.
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I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than material reality.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am walking the true road, if i am slain, then i die in the knowledge that for a brief time, at least, i was part of somethin bigger. this road has perils and i will surely die on it,but, i am not afraid to die.
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The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.
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Cowell gave me an enormous amount of 'how to' knowledge, including how to write a serial piece before I went to Schoenberg. Also an immense stimulation about world music. He was an absolutely fascinating man, because of his knowledge not only of world music but also of how to do different things.
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If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.
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For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.
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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}
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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.
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I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
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The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.
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Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
