Quotes about Knowledge

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”

“This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.”

“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.”

“Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.”

“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.”

“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.”

“Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.”

“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”

“You can't make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.”

“I never had a traditional mentor. I know people who have been successful with a mentor, but I've never understood why I should limit myself to the knowledge and expertise of one person.”

“You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.”

“What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.”

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”

“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.”

“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”