Knowledge Quotes · Page 185

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

— Corliss Lamont

“What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“First learning, then proving I’d learned. Knowing and using the knowledge aren’t the same thing.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Light. Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can't…

— Vittorio Storaro

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his”

— Adam Rutherford

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

— Fritz Machlup

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

— Big Boi

People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers.…

— Jerry McNerney

“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be re-born. Being re-born, one is able to let go of suffering…

— VD

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach;…

— Thomas de Quincey

Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the…

— Carroll Smith

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious…

— Idries Shah

I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him…

— Rachel Hartman

God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“Knowledge is a flash of light between two darknesses; but knowledge cannot go above and beyond that darkness. Knowledge is essential to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

— Richard P. Feynman

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

— Anonymous

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to…

— Richard P. Feynman

“I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I…

— Ilyas Kassam

True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.

— Frederick Lenz

“The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.”

— Julien Smith

To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.

— Joseph Stiglitz

We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.

— Guo Guangchang

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

— David Hume

“We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm…

— Wayne Knight

“Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person.”

— Richard J. Borden

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

— Anton Zeilinger

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.”

— James C. Emlund

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

— Anonymous

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one…

— Eric Berne

“information and knowledge is only useful and powerful if you implement it and ise, if you dont use it, it serve no…

— Sanville Moses

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

— James Madison

“The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.”

— Idries Shah

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh