Knowledge Quotes
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The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring.
Bran Ferren
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Knowledge is potential; action is power.
Anthony Robbins
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
Lao Tzu
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When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
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I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
Ernest Shackleton
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We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams
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I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.
Peter Greenaway
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It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
Remy de Gourmont
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From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
Ray Bradbury
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The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge like any other; it is a movement demanding all the anthropological aspects of being and time.
Georges Didi-Huberman
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If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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We think by feeling. What is there to know?
Theodore Roethke
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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
Eugene J. Martin
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He got up and talked about what they ran and why they ran it. I was just amazed at his presence and his knowledge.
Bret Bielema
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Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.
Nicholas of Cusa
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The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.
Charles Horace Mayo
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Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.
Daniel Yankelovich
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy, by his power of loving, to win back her love.
Elizabeth Gaskell