Knowledge Quotes

• Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge

• This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • May
  • Future
  • Past

• At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Question

• As has been said…'A devotee does not worry about anything, except the experience of Knowledge.'...'When the perfect Master is there to take care of you, you have nothing to worry about. All the powers of prosperity and success are ready to serve you and you are free from all bondages.'..

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Free

• Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Power
  • Career
  • Relationship

• What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Creativity

• Truth is … one approach to the attainment of the good, but in and of itself, it is neither the good nor the beautiful … Socrates, Pascal, and others regarded knowledge of the truth with regard to purposeless objects as incongruous with the good … by exposing deception, truth destroys illusion, which is the principle attribute of beauty.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Society
  • Knowledge

• Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learning

• Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Important
  • Humanity

• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Knowledge
  • Food
  • Sweet

• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  

  Socrates
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Lifetime

• Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • People
  • History
  • Knowledge

• Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

  

  P. D. James
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Past

• Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Believe
  • Always
  • Destiny

• It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Hope
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Words

• To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

  

  Lord Acton
  • Experience
  • Power
  • History

• I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.

  

  Chris Jordan
  • Knowledge
  • Hate

• The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• 'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Country
  • School
  • She

• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Science

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