Knowledge Quotes

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Douglas Everett

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

But all knowledge has to be won – like every other thing that is worthy of us sons of God.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Cheech Marin

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

Peter Drucker

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Derek Jacobi

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Frederick Buechner

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Socrates

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

R. Buckminster Fuller