Knowledge Quotes

8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors

In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students… — Unknown Author
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter,… — E F Schumacher
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many… — Amartya Sen
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit. — Rudolf Steiner
There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to… — Emma Thompson
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such… — Aristotle
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge. — Aristotle
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their… — Aristotle
One cannot know everything. — Horace
It is well for one to know more than he says — Plautus
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me. — Horace
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? — Lucretius
I know all that better than my own name. — Martial
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge? — Aulus Persius Flaccus
I know you even under the skin. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is… — Johannes Scotus Eriugena
Reason in man is rather like God in the world. — Thomas Aquinas
To ask the proper question is half of knowing — Roger Bacon
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in… — Meister Eckhart
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn. — Desiderius Erasmus
Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man — Unknown Author
Too much to know is to know naught but fame. — William Shakespeare
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. — Philip Sidney

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