975 private quotes tagged knowledge

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.” — 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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“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.” — Konrad Lorenz

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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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“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.” — Plato

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

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

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

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

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

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