Knowledge Like Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that…
— Thomas Arnold
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of…
— Charles Babbage
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.
— Kató Lomb
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Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge…
— Jason Silva
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There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an awareness. A major…
— Ira Progoff
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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like…
— Ira Progoff
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
— Laurence Sterne
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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
— Scott Turow
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Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
— Jeanette Winterson
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.
— Garth Nix
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Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
— Alan Moore
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Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education…
— Kate Atkinson
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
— Laurence Sterne
Who Wrote These Knowledge Like Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Knowledge Like Quotes as follows: