Knowledge Quotes

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Harriet Martineau

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Susanne Langer

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Giacomo Casanova

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

Ernest Hemingway

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Ralph Thomas Walker

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Seymour Papert

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

Cat Deeley

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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.

Busy Philipps

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Emma Thompson

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Franz Grillparzer

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

Albert Einstein

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew