Knowledge Quotes
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Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
Napoleon Hill
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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund Freud
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
Ernest Hemingway
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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.
Adolf Hitler
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Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
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Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. As Thomas Henry Huxley said, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is there anyone who knows so much as to be out of danger?' …. The problems of learning to read or write are inexhaustible.
Neil Postman
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Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
Gerald Schroeder
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt
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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
William Blake
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I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
Rudyard Kipling
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Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
Betty Edwards
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this 'negative meta-knowledge' - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know.
Marvin Minsky
