Knowledge Quotes

knowing is not enough,we must applywilling is not enough,we must do..

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trzymajcie si? z dala od cz?owieka, który pracowa? w pocie czo?a nad rozwi?zaniem jakiej? zagadki, rozwi?za? j? i stwierdzi?, ?e nie jest m?drzejszy ni? przedtem - powiada Bokonon. - Przepe?nia go bowiem mordercza pogarda do ludzi, którzy s? równie g?upi jak on, ale nie doszli do swojej g?upoty równie ci??k? prac?.

Kurt Vonnegut

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Karl Jaspers

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Polykarp Kusch

One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G. K. Chesterton

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Buddha

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

Timothy Geithner

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Wheeler

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

John Naisbitt

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

Ben Shahn

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

Natalia Makarova

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Kahlil Gibran

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

George McGovern

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Willie Nelson

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Jonathan Dimbleby