975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!” — Michael Caine

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“The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.” — Jeremy Bentham

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“Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.” — Susan Orlean

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“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.” — Robert Mugabe

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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.” — Milan Kundera

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“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” — Laurence Sterne

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

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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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“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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“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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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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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.” — Hippocrates

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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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“There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.” — Suzanne Somers

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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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“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” — Enrico Fermi

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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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“Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.” — Jesse James Garrett

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“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.” — Thomas Friedman

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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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