Knowledge Quotes

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Plato

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

William Blake

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

T. S. Eliot

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Bertrand Russell

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Mark Twain

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

Charlie Sheen

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

John Drinkwater

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Bertrand Russell

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Virchand Gandhi

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws

Bertrand Russell

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett

Man knows more than he understands.

Alfred Adler

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Minsky

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr