Knowledge Quotes

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Clark Moustakas

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

Mary Wortley Montagu

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Leon Jouhaux

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moli

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moli

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan Macy

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

J.K. Rowling

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.

Mark Twain

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Scott Adams

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Edwin Louis Cole

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Sudie Back

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Corliss Lamont

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Jean Piaget

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Zebulon Pike

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

Kevin Mitnick

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand Russell

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Edgar Degas

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Janet Jackson

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

Kahlil Gibran