Knowledge Quotes · Page 147

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

— Thomas Sowell

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to…

— Ray Bradbury

“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

— Tim O'Reilly

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

— Aneurin Bevan

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

— Denis Leary

One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.

— M. S. Swaminathan

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

— Karl Pearson

“Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort…

— Protagoras

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world…

— Warren Bennis

“The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which…

— Thomas Watson

Many things we accept as fact today were ridiculed and opposed in the not-too-distant past; this goes to show that just because…

— Melchor Lim

“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,…

— Abhijit Naskar

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge,…

— Franz Kafka

“We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mess of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we…

— Matt Haig

To each is their own, flavors born with distinction what often tastes sweet dies off in extinction.

— Jamie Timbre

“All the knowledge that ever existed, or ever will exist, is already out there in the air. All you need to do…

— Victor Wooten

People are so narrow minded these days and have such a lack of knowledge of anything.

— Anonymous

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

— Anonymous

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

— George Henry Lewes

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

“… and she understood that all forms of knowledge contain an element of transgression.”

— Maylis de Kerangal

“Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words, formulated by scholar into knowledge.”

— Toba Beta

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is…

— Garth Nix

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

— Oscar Wilde

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

— Anonymous

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

— A. J. P. Taylor

“Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot…

— Andrew Ashling

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The easiest way to know if girl is a virgin or not... . . . . . . . . . . Ask her.:D

— Rajdeep Sarkar

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

— Ramana Maharshi

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

— Nick McDonell

“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”

— Sunday Adelaja

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain…

— Frederick Lenz

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

— Joseph Badaracco

Experience imparts ability on what to do and confidence makes you wise enough on how to do.

— Anil Sinha

Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the…

— Peter Senge

“If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.”

— Sunday Adelaja