Knowledge Quotes · Page 135

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful…

— Mark B. Cohen

“Leather means possession. Turquoise traditionally represents protection. Together they mean you belong to the man who put it around your neck.”

— Kim Dare

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

— Peter Drucker

“Awareness is the ultimate “always already,” the transcendental condition for the possibility of everything.”

— Lee Braver

“Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

— Kofi Annan

Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for…

— Eric Halvorsen

“The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The fruit in the garden was not about knowledge, but about not knowing, about looking into a face and having no idea…

— Naeem Murr

“Insight: all evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a state,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that…

— Gerald Durrell

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when…

— Yuri Bezmenov

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s…

— Walker Percy

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge,…

— George Eliot

When a senior religious scholar whom the Almighty has used to change the lives of many people across the globe passes away,…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

My passion in life is knowledge let it be learning something at school to learning how to fight from when I was…

— Michael Country

Dont be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

— Anonymous

“How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

— Isaac Asimov

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of…

— Jim Elliot

“There's no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.”

— Idries Shah

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

— Stuart Sherman

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

— Grant Hill

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

— George Washington

“Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.”

— neil peart

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

— John Templeton

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

— Nelly Mazloum

“A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.”

— Derrick Jensen

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

— Proverbs 15:14

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of…

— Albert Schweitzer

Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.

— Henry Spira

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

— Terence McKenna

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Being articulate is not the same as being wise. Truth devoid of conscience, is worthless in human existence.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

— John Stott

The hardest battle of our lives is between what we think we know, and what we really feel.

— Anonymous