Knowledge Quotes

• Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

  

  John Milton
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• This truly is the God of lesser glory, because of his lesser knowledge, lesser wisdom, lesser discernment, lesser ability, lesser reliability, and lesser guidance.

  

  Bruce A. Ware
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Discernment

• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

  

  Carroll Smith
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Reason

• The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Education
  • Training
  • State

• Knowledge is the death of research.

  

  Walther Nernst
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Research

• Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Animal

• Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Together

• Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

  

  Michael Sandel
  • Knowledge
  • Self
  • Innocence

• In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Education
  • Appreciate

• A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Devil
  • Well
  • Resisting

• Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Spiritual
  • Pride
  • Blow

• As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

  

  Will Durant
  • Knowledge
  • Overcoming
  • Worshiping

• It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion
  • Examine

• Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Advantage
  • Beens
  • Conveniences

• Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Competence
  • Metaphysical
  • Posterior

• You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

  

  Angel Cabrera
  • Knowledge
  • Golf

• True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Evil
  • General
  • Abstract

• And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

  

  Will Durant
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Victory

• Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

  

  Austin Osman Spare
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Subconscious

• We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Today
  • Knowledge
  • Period

• It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Effort
  • Advantage

• 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

• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing
  • Meaning

• The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

  

  Austin Osman Spare
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Body

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