975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.” — Francis Bacon

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“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.” — Sophocles

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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.” — H. G. Wells

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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” — Francis Bacon

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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.” — Bertrand Russell

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

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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.” — Aldous Huxley

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“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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