Knowledge Quotes · Page 268

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at…

— George Steiner

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise…

— Giacomo Casanova

“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power;…

— Criss Jami

Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part…

— Maya Angelou

“How do you tell a young girl in her formative years that the real value, real wealth is only in acquisition of…

— Vinod Pande

The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you…

— Dabo Swinney

Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or…

— Paul Feyerabend

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree…

— Stuart Wilde

“Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment…

— Ernst Cassirer

What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will…

— Frederick Lenz

When we harness the ability to turn connections into data and then into knowledge, we can empower citizens, patients, and professionals to…

— Tae Yoo

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and…

— Lajos Egri

“Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. There is a vast strength…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When a being such as myself who came from a rather difficult background is to 'work' here on earth, dimensionally as part…

— Timothy Treadwell

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to…

— Albert Camus

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only…

— Aristotle

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits…

— William Hazlitt

“Scriptures have been written for one to Know. Nothing needs to be done for that which is to be Known. ‘I cannot…

— Dada Bhagwan

“People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the…

— Idries Shah

“I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has…

— Albert Einstein

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt…

— Marie Curie

We think so because all other people think so; Or because-or because-after all, we do think so; Or because we were told…

— Henry Sidgwick

In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You…

— Vernon Howard

Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…

— William Cowper

“Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the…

— Seth

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you…

— William Bernbach

WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“our knowledge physical, metaphysical, physiological, polemical, nautical, mathematical, ænigmatical, technical, biographical, romantical, chemical, and obstetrical, with fifty other branches of it, (most…

— Laurence Sterne

“Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know…

— Elbert Hubbard

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom…

— William Cowper

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has…

— Albert Einstein

What shall we say who have knowledge Carried to the heart? Shall wetake the act To the grave? Shall we, more hopeful,…

— Anonymous

“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he…

— David O. McKay

I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know…

— David Lynch