Knowledge Quotes
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I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.
Chiwetel Ejiofor -
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
Aristotle
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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.
Lao Tzu -
If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
Zhang Zhidong -
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Emma Bonino -
Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
Yochai Benkler -
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
Avicenna -
Children - change that to infants - dream of their past lives, remembering; for example, how to walk and talk. They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. They are guided by memories that they later forget.
Jane Roberts
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No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
Albert Einstein -
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo -
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
Anna Letitia Barbauld -
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya Angelou -
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
Aristotle -
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke Nazareth
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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…
Frank Zappa -
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.
Michel Foucault -
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Douglas Coupland -
Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
Socrates -
That scrawny cry - It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.
Wallace Stevens -
There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
Albert Einstein
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
Sally Ride -
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
Warren Bennis -
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving Howe -
The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
Arthur C. Clarke