Knowledge Quotes

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

Rachel Hartman

Tak ada brahmana angkuh. Mereka hanya lebih mengerti, lebih tahu daripada orang yang menganggap pengetahuan dan ilmu sebagai keangkuhan.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

a problem well put is half solved.

John Dewey

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Sally Ride

Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners...

Meredith Duran

I love to doubt as well as know.

Dante Alighieri

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Isaac Asimov

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

C.S. Lewis

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Adam Weishaupt

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

Humphry Davy

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.

Samuel Johnson

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Jane Porter

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Albert Einstein

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Andrew McMahon

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

Malcolm X

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Jacob Bronowski

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life

Peter M. Senge

we can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand

Albert Einstein