Knowledge Quotes

• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Improvement

• Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Political
  • Knowledge
  • Religious

• The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

  

  John Berger
  • Earth
  • Knowledge
  • Sun

• I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Done
  • Light

• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fence

• You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Feels
  • Canvas
  • Draws

• If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Senses

• 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.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Knowledge
  • Difficult
  • Ocean

• While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • She
  • Knowledge
  • Recovery

• I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Die

• That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

  

  Kenneth Arrow
  • Pretty
  • Knowledge

• Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Essence
  • Suppose

• Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

  

  George Eliot
  • Liberal
  • Conjecture
  • Incompatible

• And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Justice

• Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Knowledge

• Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Remember
  • Knowledge
  • Memory

• The skills associated with knowledge creation are totally different from the skills associated with production.

  

  John Quelch
  • Different
  • Knowledge

• Knowledge is not spiritual, nor is it a religion. Knowledge belongs in neither of those two categories. Knowledge says there is a consciousness inside of you, that you are complete.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Knowledge
  • Spiritual

• Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Understanding
  • Humility
  • Acknowledge

• And if it is true that we acquired our knowledge before our birth, and lost it at the moment of birth, but afterward, by the exercise of our senses upon sensible objects, recover the knowledge which we had once before, I suppose that what we call learning will be the recovery of our own knowledge . . . PLATO

  

  Edward F Edinger
  • Learning
  • Birth
  • Recovery

• Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Great
  • Power
  • Simple

• An unrenewed mind is a mind that lacks the knowledge of God's Word. A lack of knowledge about the Word keeps us from maturing spiritually.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Word
  • Lack
  • Spiritually

• It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

  

  John Burnside
  • Knowledge

• My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Knowledge

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