Knowledge Quotes · Page 170

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

— Nicolas Malebranche

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

— Edward Livingston

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

— Anonymous

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

— Herodotus

“Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for…

— Sunday Adelaja

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and…

— Marina Abramovic

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

— Ivan Pavlov

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated.

— Condoleezza Rice

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply…

— Robert Greene

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their…

— Deepak Chopra

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of…

— Sara Zarr

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Such visible failure and a sense of lost moorings can be – for the individual as for society – not only a…

— Douglas Murray

“These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to…

— Oliver Bowden

“Awakening is to become aware of your awareness. Be in the awareness of your presence, rather than being in the now.”

— Gian Kumar

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

— Shmuel Niger

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

— Frank Shamrock

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's…

— Steve Jobs

“If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Knowledge speaks while wisdom tries to understand what is being spoken in the right sense.

— Dr Kurien S Thomas

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit…

— Glenn Murray

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

“I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.”

— David Bowers

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I am a living being regardless of my knowledge, which exists only because I exist.”

— Miguel Ruiz Jr

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

— Berthold Auerbach

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

— Meister Eckhart

I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.

— Rudolf Steiner

“Like all good teachers, he loves the moment of revelation, when the light of knowledge passes to his pupil.”

— Rae Carson

Knowledge is just how I am. I like to know things. I'm an inquisitive human being.

— Frank Mir

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

— Yvon Chouinard

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”

— John Calvin

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable…

— John Stuart Mill

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

— Anonymous