Knowledge Quotes

• Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Goodness

• I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Learn
  • Internet
  • I Love

• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Order
  • Confusion
  • Greater

• For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Concerned
  • Varieties

• Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Insight
  • Rediscovering

• I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

  

  William Congreve
  • Opinion
  • Speak
  • Firsts

• All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Knowledge
  • Universe
  • Understanding

• Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.

  

  Adrianne Curry
  • Knowledge
  • Cast

• Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Remember
  • Learning
  • Information

• The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Father
  • Knowledge
  • Rediscovers

• It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • People
  • Remember
  • Fear

• I’ve always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.

  

  Andromeda Romano-Lax
  • Knowledge
  • Books
  • Autumn

• Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Grows
  • Definitions
  • Concepts

• The only secure knowledge is that I exist.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Knowledge
  • Exist
  • Secure

• What do you know about love? Are your feelings more holy than mine? Am I exempt from the knowledge of love until I become “of age?” Do I automatically become human enough when I start loving you and seeing things your way?

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Love
  • Knowledge
  • Human

• Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • God
  • Religion
  • Identity

• 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

• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Education
  • Knowledge
  • Oneself

• It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Motivational

• We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

  

  William Bell
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Gather

• After the third killing in May 1980 he says he was growing less and less ‘emotional’ about it and was simply resigned to the knowledge that he was a compulsive killer.

  

  Brian Masters
  • Knowledge
  • Killing
  • Killer

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