Quotes about Knowledge

“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”

“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

“If you understand physics of how a locomotive works, that knowledge is irreplaceable.”

“I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.”

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.”

“In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.”

“What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.”

“The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.”

“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.”

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.”

“I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.”

“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”

“Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.”

“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”

“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”