Knowledge Quotes

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Image
  • Islam
  • Muslim

• There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Person
  • Satisfactions

• Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • She
  • Deep

• Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nature

• None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fear

• We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Women
  • Brilliant
  • Myths

• The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Beginning
  • Perception
  • Writer

• In the district of Hizan, through the influence of Shaikh Abdurrahman Tagi, known as Seyda, so many students, teachers, and scholars emerged, I was sure all Kurdistan took pride in them and their scholarly debates and wide knowledge and Sufi way. These were the people who would conquer the face of the earth!

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Earth
  • Pride

• Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Results

• I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. . . seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.

  

  Howard Duane Allman The Allman Brothers Band
  • Learn
  • I Love
  • Best Man

• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Knowledge
  • Stress
  • Sympathy

• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Wisdom

• The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Knowledge
  • Rain

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Me
  • Training
  • Missing

• Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Knowledge
  • Now
  • Become

• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Attitude

• When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Forget

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Path
  • Leads
  • Should Be

• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Lack

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