Knowledge Quotes

• Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • War
  • Responsibility
  • Wisdom

• It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

  

  Jamie Oliver
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Cooking

• We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Games
  • Conversing

• Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Choice
  • Liberating
  • Penetrate

• My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Knowledge
  • Wall

• We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Wisdom
  • Dignity
  • Examination

• The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Collaboration
  • IQ
  • CEOs

• God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross Sphere which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the ranges of men's knowledge, is the Creation that issued from the Point of Finiteness in the infinite Existence that is God.

  

  Meher Baba
  • God
  • Men
  • Space

• Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• 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

• All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • World
  • Children
  • Health

• Money is not a fund of knowledge.

  

  John Kluge
  • Money
  • Knowledge

• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards victory.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Victory

• A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Physician
  • Astrology

• Any attempt at willful ignorance would now be futile or worse; the only talisman against excessive knowledge that might have puissance would be more knowledge.

  

  Norman Spinrad
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Attempt

• Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

  

  George Eliot
  • Poverty
  • Remembrance
  • My Soul

• We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • Knowledge

• Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

  

  Plato
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Pleasure

• People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Danger
  • Spirits
  • Philosophers

• More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • May
  • Future
  • Feeling

• New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Earth

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