Knowledge Quotes

• I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  

  Socrates
  • Inspiration
  • Talent
  • Poets

• Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

  

  David Christian
  • World
  • History
  • Knowledge

• Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Worship
  • Righteousness

• Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Important
  • Rest
  • Practice

• Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Dance

• Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Create

• She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Power
  • Eyes

• Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Design

• As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Teacher
  • Happiness
  • Emotions

• If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Good
  • Ifs
  • Train

• The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Drive
  • Origin

• The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

  

  R. T. Kendall
  • God
  • May
  • Rest

• The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

  

  Ely Culbertson
  • Player
  • Masters
  • Contracts

• If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • God
  • Search
  • Paradise

• It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Value
  • Synthesis
  • Self-evident

• Nature creates natural swarms. UNU uses networking technology and algorithms to take advantage of the knowledge, wisdom, and insights of a large group of people by allowing them to think as one.

  

  Louis B. Rosenberg
  • People
  • Nature
  • Technology

• If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • She
  • Father
  • Night

• Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Athirst

• A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Success

• There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Words
  • Action
  • Hero

• It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Causes
  • Principles

• The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Knowledge
  • Sympathy

• Minerva House … was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • House
  • Knowledge

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