Knowledge Quotes
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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
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Kant stated defensively that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge. . . to make room for faith,' but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not 'denied knowledge' but separated knowledge from thinking.
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The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
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I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.
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A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.
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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
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Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.
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Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.
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Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
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How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.
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You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.
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I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
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Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
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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?"
