Knowledge Quotes

• We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • Knowledge

• If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Theory
  • Human being
  • Discoveries

• I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Literature

• How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Knowledge

• It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Knowledge
  • Realizing
  • Asks

• Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

  

  Geeta Iyengar
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • End

• Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Knowledge
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

  

  George Reisman
  • Law
  • Competition
  • Survival

• My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

  

  David K. E. Bruce
  • Knowledge
  • Health

• We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.

  

  Barbara Warren
  • Health
  • Care
  • Stigma

• There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Knowledge

• There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Father
  • Knowledge
  • Rome

• Knowledge is only potential power.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Potential

• Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

  

  Klemens von Metternich
  • Knowledge
  • Constitute
  • Ignorances

• The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences

  

  William Whewell
  • Art
  • Science
  • Mean

• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Gift
  • Reputation

• The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Teacher

• We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.

  

  T. J. Jackson Lears
  • Light
  • Lost
  • Powerful

• Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Business
  • Success
  • Science

• Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

  

  John Tyndall
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

  

  Iain Banks
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Wisdom

• Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.

  

  Umar
  • People
  • Teach
  • Inspiring

• Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Science
  • Foundation
  • Classification

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