975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.” — Jeremy Taylor

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

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“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.” — Bertolt Brecht

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

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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 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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“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.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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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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“Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.” — Bryant H. McGill

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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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“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.” — Herbie Hancock

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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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“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.” — John Locke

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

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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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“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” — David Ben-Gurion

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