Quotes about Knowledge

“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”

“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”

“Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.”

“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

“When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.”

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.”

“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.”

“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

“In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.”

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

“Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.”

“With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.”

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

“If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.”

“If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.”

“While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.”

“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.”

“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.”

“If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.”