Knowledge Quotes

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Barry White

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Will Smith

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Abraham Cowley

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Kurt Vonnegut

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

Ruben Studdard

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward Thorndike

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas Henry Huxley

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

William Morris Hunt

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Jack LaLanne

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

Chris Cleave