975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan

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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.” — Plato

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“You should not ask questions without knowledge.” — W. Edwards Deming

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

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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot

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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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“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.” — Lao Tzu

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“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.” — T. S. Eliot

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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 doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.” — William Penn

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“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” — William Shakespeare

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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.” — Plutarch

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“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.” — Confucius

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