What Is Knowledge Quotes

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

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

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

Knowledge is the death of research.

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.