975 private quotes tagged knowledge

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

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

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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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“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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“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” — Albert Einstein

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“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Doubt grows with knowledge.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin

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

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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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