Quotes about Knowledge

“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”

“The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.”

“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”

“The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.”

“My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.”

“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”

“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”

“Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.”

“Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.”

“Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.”

“I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.”

“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.”

“The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.”

“At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.”

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.”

“The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.”

“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”

“The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.”

“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.”

“Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”