Knowledge Quotes

• Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Humanity
  • Ignorance
  • Buddha

• Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Fight
  • Qualities
  • Chess Game

• It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

  

  Ernest Nagel
  • Science
  • Desire
  • Goal

• Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

  

  Arnold H. Glasow
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • True
  • Knowledge

• It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

  

  Alan Lightman
  • Different
  • Science
  • Religious

• The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

  

  Edward Tufte
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge

• Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • World
  • Career
  • Knowledge

• He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Knowledge
  • Deepest
  • Diggeth

• The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the one is the agreement of the several parts of a theological proposition; the object of the other is moral beauty, the intrinsic loveliness of God and Divine things. The sinner sees and hates; the saint sees and loves.

  

  Gardiner Spring
  • Character
  • Christian
  • Evidence

• The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Reasons

• Thought from which no emotion springs is sterile. The knowledge that has no bearing on the conduct of life is vain.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • May
  • Words

• Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

  

  Italo Calvino
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Solidity

• Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Women
  • Progress
  • Improvement

• As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

  

  John Olver
  • Job
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

  

  John Sergeant Wise
  • America
  • Father
  • Son

• God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Power
  • Dominion

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