Knowledge Quotes
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
Talcott Parsons
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Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
Idries Shah
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
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Teetering in between worlds with a sleepy conscious, pestilence, infinite knowledge, alienation, burning cigarettes, vibes & male seahorses.
Frances Bean Cobain
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
Hans Hofmann
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Frances Wright
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
James Mackintosh
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I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Never could I tell, try as I might, what it actually was that I saw; nor could the still face tell, for although it must have seen more than I did, it will never speak again. But always I shall guard against the mocking and insatiate Hypnos, lord of sleep, against the night sky, and against the mad ambitions of knowledge and philosophy.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
Ramez Naam
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This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.
Jeff Greenfield
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
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My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
Emeril Lagasse
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For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander the Great
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I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
Jane Krakowski