Knowledge Quotes

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Avicenna

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Warren Bennis

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Gustave Courbet

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Maria Mitchell

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

Ezra Pound

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

Phillip E. Johnson

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

Evan Davis

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

Kurt Loder

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

David Soul

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Jim Ryun

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Walt Disney

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

John Ruskin

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Johann von Goethe

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Johann von Goethe

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Johann von Goethe

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham J. Heschel