Knowledge Quotes
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We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.
D. H. Lawrence
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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Francis Bacon
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
Thomas Hobbes
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
Norm MacDonald
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I promise you, if you will heed the voice of warning of the Holy Ghost and will follow His direction, you will be blessed with the ministering of angels, which will add wisdom, knowledge, power, and glory to your life. Remember, the Lord is bound by solemn covenant to bless our lives according to our faithfulness.
L. Tom Perry
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
Kabir
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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
Plato
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It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
Jerome Hines
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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
Wilhelm Dilthey
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
W. H. Auden
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It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.
Vincent Rodriguez III
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.
Bozoma Saint John
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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
