Knowledge Quotes

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

  

  George Eliot
  • Home
  • Sounds
  • Human Life

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Important
  • Imagination

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

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Lack

• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Economy
  • Succeed

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Start
  • Internet

• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • True
  • Education
  • Knowledge

• This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Nature
  • Society

• No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

  

  Socrates
  • Think
  • Person
  • Teaching

• Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • Hand
  • Everyone

• Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

  

  Moliere
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Life is

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the mostMust mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Tree

• The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Earth

• When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Pride

• A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • True

• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

  

  Doris Day
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • High
  • Knowledge
  • Improvement

• Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Ideals
  • Traditions

• Science is the result of and the instrument for acquiring more and more knowledge, which enable man to outgrow progressively the limitations set to the development of his mind and spirit by old ideas, ideals and notions which resulted from the primitive ignorance of humanity in its infancy.

  

  M. N. Roy
  • Science
  • Result
  • Instrument

• My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.

  

  Joseph Bruchac
  • People
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Ignorance

• [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Humility
  • Oneself

• 'An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things-as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.'

  

  George Eliot
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

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