975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” — Henry Ford

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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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“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.” — Khalil Gibran

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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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“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.” — Voltaire

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

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“Knowledge is true opinion.” — Plato

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“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” — Plato

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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 investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” — James Madison

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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” — Aristotle

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“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” — Luther Burbank

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“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.” — Joshua Foer

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“Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.” — Havelock Ellis

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“While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.” — Herbie Hancock

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