Knowledge Quotes

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Joseph Addison

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

Criss Jami

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Henning Mankell

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Oscar Wilde

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

Toba Beta

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Jeffrey Kluger

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Jane Campion

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Jean Piaget

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

Michael Crichton

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

David Amram

We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.

Ivan Urlaub

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

David Deutsch

Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Size does matter.Nano even better.

Toba Beta

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Carl Sagan

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

Roy Moore