Knowledge Quotes
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If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
John Ruskin
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Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
William Wickenden
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness-calling their denial knowledge.
George Eliot
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
Thomas Hood
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I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.
Dalai Lama
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.
Brenda Peterson
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
Thomas Aquinas
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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Blaise Pascal
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I am custodian of the knowledge hoarded here.
Brandon Mull
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Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art, but most of it comes from a pool of knowledge.
Brian Stelfreeze
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You have to have someone coming off the bench who has experience, knowledge and ability.
Phil Jackson
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Gerard De Nerval
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Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.
Eleanor Duckworth
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The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
Marcel Proust
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.
Herbert Spencer
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
Miguel de Cervantes
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.
Andrew Ng
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There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
George Fownes