Knowledge Quotations | Page 5

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn't do that?

I've been told that no one knows what happens in the future on 'Game of Thrones.' To my knowledge, I've shot one episode. So I'm as excited as anyone else to find out what happens.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.

It is well for one to know more than he says

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery - the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?