Quotes about Knowledge

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

“We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.”

“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”

“The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.”

“We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I said to myself: I will create a field theory of strings. And when I did it one day, it was incredible, realizing that on a sheet of paper I can write down an equation which summarized almost all physical knowledge.”

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

“If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic... But books are a source of knowledge, I have great thirst for knowledge.”

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

“I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase.”

“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”

“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”

“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.”

“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.”

“The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.”

“I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.”

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

“The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.”