975 private quotes tagged 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.” — Abigail Adams

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“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.” — Stokely Carmichael

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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.” — Oswald Chambers

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“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.” — Scott Adams

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“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.” — Zhuangzi

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“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.” — Hippocrates

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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.” — George Herbert

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“We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.” — Anne Sullivan Macy

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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” — John Calvin

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“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.” — Elie Wiesel

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“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.” — Sydney Madwed

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“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.” — Henry Miller

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“How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.” — Steve Harvey

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“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.” — Walter Lang

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“So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.” — Newt Gingrich

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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.” — Walter Lippmann

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“The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.” — Daniel D. Palmer

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“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“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.” — George Santayana

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“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.” — Walter Mosley

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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.” — Charles Babbage

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“Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.” — Bob Ney

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