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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
— E. Stanley Jones
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
— Johannes Tauler
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
— Philip Yancey
Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
— Orson Pratt
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
— Pearl Bailey
Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Cast your cares on God that anchor holds.
— Frank Moore Colby
We are made to know and love God.
— Nicolas Malebranche
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
— Evelyn Underhill
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
— Evelyn Underhill
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
— Oswald Chambers
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
— Xenophanes
My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.
— Charles Duke
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
— Arthur Peacocke
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
— John Barth
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
— Thomas Ken
The only source of knowledge is experience.
— Albert Einstein
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
— Jean Piaget
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
— Shakuntala Devi
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
— Plato
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
— Anton Chekhov
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
— Confucius
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
— Princess Diana
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
— George Bernard Shaw
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
— Thomas Sowell
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
— Warren Buffett
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
— John F. Kennedy
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
— John Adams
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
— Confucius
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
— James A. Forbes
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
— Petra Nemcova
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.
— Paul Rand
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
— Robert Quillen
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
— T. S. Eliot
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
— John Locke
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
— Marilyn vos Savant
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
— John Locke
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
— Plato
I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.
— Dave Ramsey
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
— Wilbur Wright
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
— Abu Bakr
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
— Immanuel Kant
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
— Malcolm X
Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
— Hakeem Olajuwon
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
— Khalil Gibran
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
— Cesar Chavez
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
— Albert Einstein
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
— Leonardo da Vinci
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
— Dorothy Denning
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
— Peter Drucker
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
— D. H. Lawrence
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
— Ramana Maharshi
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
— John F. Kennedy
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.
— Richard Avedon
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
— William Blake
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
— Lao Tzu
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
— Alfred Nobel
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
— Barbara McClintock
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
— George Boole
I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.
— Matt Bevin
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
— Adam Grant
We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
— Abu Bakr
Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.
— Sharon Salzberg
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
— John Adams
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
— Thomas Aquinas
You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
— Evel Knievel
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Plato
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
— Bertrand Russell
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
— William Penn
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
— Ben Carson
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
— Napoleon Hill
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
— William Penn
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
— Alexander the Great
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
— John Locke
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
— Ray Bradbury
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
— Max Weber
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
— Terry Pratchett
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
— Tavis Smiley
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
— Maria Montessori
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
— Mr. T
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
— Thomas Aquinas
Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.
— Lisa Randall
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
— Max Planck
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
— Will Durant
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
— Thomas Aquinas
Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
— Pope Francis
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Khalil Gibran
More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.
— Mark Pocan
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
— Hermann Hesse
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
— John F. Kennedy
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
— Khalil Gibran
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
— Plato
Knowledge is true opinion.
— Plato
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
— Richard Cecil
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
— Avicenna
The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.
— Tiger Woods
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
— Archibald Hill
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
— Tadao Ando
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
— Peter Drucker
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
— Sally Ride
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
— Jean Piaget
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
— Phillips Brooks
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
— Matt Blunt
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away true knowledge remains forever.
— Dorothea Dix
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
— Saint Bernard
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
— Khalil Gibran
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
— Clifford Stoll
The private sector is the key player in cyber security. Private sector companies are the primary victims of cyber intrusions. And they also possess the information, the expertise, and the knowledge to address cyber intrusions and cyber crime in general.
— James Comey
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
— Gordon W. Allport
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
— Abigail Adams
If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
— Zhang Zhidong
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
— Khalil Gibran
Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.
— Cesare Beccaria
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
— Lord Byron
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
— A. R. Rahman
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.
— Martina Navratilova
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.
— Michel Foucault
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
— Dante Alighieri
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
— Herodotus
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
— Horace Mann
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
— Miguel de Cervantes
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
— David Bohm
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
— Xun Kuang
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
— Jean Piaget
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
— David Ben-Gurion
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
— Walt Disney
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
— William Holden
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
— John McCarthy
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
— Avery Brooks
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
— Jonathan Kozol
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
— Muhammad Yunus
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
— Lynda Barry
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
— Mary J. Blige
The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.
— Vivek Wadhwa
I have recently been able to see the new world - the quiet, the tranquility and the freedom it will bring with it. This is very comforting knowledge for me because I already know that what I envision eventually becomes a reality.
— Shari Arison
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.
— Mimi Kennedy
Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
— Said Nursi
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
— James Monroe
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.
— George Washington Carver
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
— Jean Piaget
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
— Milan Kundera
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
— Thomas Friedman
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
— Alan Lightman
I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... but it's allowing the truth to change you - allowing Christ's message of grace and hope and love through the cross, that that message is the message that changes the way we look at everything in our lives.
— Ben Zobrist
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
— Bertrand Russell
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!
— James D. Watson
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
— Tom Stoppard
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.
— Susan Howatch
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
— Mao Zedong
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
— Jay Griffiths
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
— Venerable Bede
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
— Jesse Ventura
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
— Frederick Sanger
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
— Carl Jung
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
— Herbert Spencer
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
— Khalil Gibran
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.
— Issa Rae
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
— Carl Jung
My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.
— Alexander Graham Bell
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
— Jon Kyl
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
— John Charles Polanyi
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
— Chaim Potok
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
— William Cowper
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
— Janet Jackson
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
— Franz Kafka
You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge - not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.
— Sharon Lawrence
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
— Malala Yousafzai
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
— William Ralph Inge
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
— Bertrand Russell
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
— Confucius
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
— Henry Ford
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
— Isaac Asimov
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
— Karl Popper
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
— Maria Mitchell
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
— John Naisbitt
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
— Gene Wolfe
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
— Chanakya
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
— John Locke
The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.
— Martin Jacques
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
— Marcel Proust
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
— Stephen Covey
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
— Randi Weingarten
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
— Frederick Sanger
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
— Milton Friedman
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
— Robert Andrews Millikan
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
— Azar Nafisi
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.
— Virginia Postrel
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
— James A. Baldwin
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
— Jacob Bronowski
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
— Marcel Proust
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
— Gerard De Nerval
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
— Khalil Gibran
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
— Alexander Alekhine
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
— Confucius
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
— Maya Angelou
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.
— Niels Bohr
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
— Thomas Huxley
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
— Susanne Langer
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
— P. G. Wodehouse
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
— H. G. Wells
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
— George Boole
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
— Roald Amundsen
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
— George Reisman
Pain is the root of knowledge.
— Simone Veil
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
— Sam Houston
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
— Joseph Story
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
— Jean Piaget
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
— Muhammad Iqbal
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
— George Jackson
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
— Tom Clancy
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
— Lafcadio Hearn
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
— Charles Babbage
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
— A. E. Waite
I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
— Joseph Haydn
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
— John Polkinghorne
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
— Adam Weishaupt
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
— Orson Scott Card
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
— Francis Picabia
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
— W. Edwards Deming
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
— Emmitt Smith
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
— Charles Bowen
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
— Rene Descartes
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
— Michel de Montaigne
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
— Mary Kay Blakely
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
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
— Seth Godin
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
— Nate Silver
We believe... that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings... that will enable Qatar to build up its society. You cannot build a healthy society without giving your citizens a sense of ownership. Otherwise, they will not share with you the responsibilities.
— Moza bint Nasser
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
— Amy Waldman
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
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
— Scott Turow
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.
— Jeff Greenfield
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
— Chuck Berry
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.
— Annie Besant
The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.
— Paul Tudor Jones
I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.
— Juliette Binoche
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
— Isabel Allende
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.
— Jonathan Kozol
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.
— David Suzuki
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
— Derek Bok
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
— Derek Bok
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
— Fabiola Gianotti
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
— Victoria Osteen
Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.
— Heidi Hayes Jacobs
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
— Richard P. Feynman
It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.
— John Niven
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
— Edmund Phelps
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
— Ellen Key
What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
— Samantha Harvey
While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.
— Sheldon Lee Glashow
If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.
— Sascha Radetsky
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
— Maimonides
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
— T. B. Joshua
Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
— Paul Kalanithi
Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
— Randi Weingarten
You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.
— Winslow Homer
In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.
— Duane Allman
Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy.
— Dean Ornish
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.
— Margaret Murray