The search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. KennedyNothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Without knowing the force of words it is impossible to know men.
ConfuciusFaith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil GibranThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert EinsteinWith regard to excellence, it is not enough to know but we must try to have and use it.
AristotleAlongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.
Sai BabaThere are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da VinciTrue friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David ThoreauNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist but what they mean, it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell LowellThose Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van GoghDogmatism 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 RussellWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinThere is no darkness, but ignorance.
William ShakespeareIf knowledge can create problems it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac AsimovCherish that which is within you and shut off that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
ZhuangziReligion is preserved by wealth, knowledge by diligent practice, a king by conciliatory words, and a home by a dutiful housewife.
ChanakyaWisdom 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 SpurgeonWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. EliotKnowledge about life is one thing, effective occupation of a place in life with its dynamic currents passing through your being is another.
William JamesThe youth of an art is like the youth of anything else its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger but we care less about it.
Samuel ButlerPrices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Thomas SowellI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareThe pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning it far surpasseth all other in nature
Francis BaconScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantIf we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.
Abraham LincolnDoubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePart of the reason of the survey is to look for current information on what people are doing what their risks are and what their level of knowledge is
James AllenWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenA good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
PlatoAs 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 SchopenhauerFor one whose heart melts with compassion for all creatures, what is the necessity of knowledge, liberation matted hair on the head and smearing the body with ashes.
ChanakyaThose who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want, not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert CamusAfter all manner of professors have done their best for us the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert CamusLet us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read think speak and write.
John AdamsHis ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan DoyleParents 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 FullerThe greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. KennedyHow dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
SophoclesThrough zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BuddhaOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer
Lord ByronFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganOur knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis SingerWonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas AquinasIn practical matters, the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about virtue then, but we must endeavor to possess it and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
AristotleKnowledge is that which next to virtue truly raises one person above another.
Joseph AddisonThe selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced, so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge, selfishness by Love.
James AllenThose people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian TracyBut although all our knowledge begins with experience it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel KantI don't want you to apologize for being rich, I want you to acknowledge that in America we all should have to pay our fair share.
Stephen KingSome believe all that parents, tutors and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance and defend them as they would their estates because they are born heirs to them.
Alan WattsOpinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
PlatoIt was through the feeling of wonder that men now, and at first, began to philosophize.
AristotleI am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
Isaac AsimovThere is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de MontaigneI was in a Printing-house in Hell and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
William BlakeWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter DruckerThose who are destitute of learning penance knowledge good disposition virtue and benevolence are brutes wandering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.
ChanakyaKnowledge rests not upon truth alone but upon error also.
Carl JungPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranThere 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 HillIn expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry MillerMan today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.
Sai BabaThe utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonWhen a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Arthur Conan DoyleShe was a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper.
Jane AustenEven the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van GoghCarry 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 DianaScientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen HawkingThe improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas HuxleyThe very problem of mind and body suggests division, I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion morals and science, the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education in religion in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
John DeweyLove takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas AquinasHe is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion who renders loving service according to his ability and who knows the limits of his anger.
ChanakyaIt 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 ProustBlinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals open your eyes!
Leonardo da VinciIs knowledge knowable? If not how do we know this?
Woody AllenIt is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Arnold H. GlasowKnowledge is lost without putting it into practice, a man is lost due to ignorance, an army is lost without a commander, and a woman is lost without a husband.
ChanakyaThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James MadisonHe who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge, there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh, the greedy man will not be truthful, and purity will not be found in a woman a hunter.
ChanakyaI 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. KennedyThe medieval university looked backwards, it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward and is a factory of new knowledge.
Thomas HuxleyTake from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques RousseauFor beautiful eyes look for the good in others, for beautiful lips speak only words of kindness, and for poise walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn[Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Francis BaconIt is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel KantTrue knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
SocratesI'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
Tom StoppardTo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VoltaireIn the first stage of boyhood he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that he has to serve the Guru and obey him without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security, he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care, he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.
Sai BabaHow can he who seeks sense gratification acquire knowledge and he who possesses knowledge enjoy mundane sense pleasure?
ChanakyaIf the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao TzuThe 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 AquinasWe are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. MenckenThis delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications
Francis BaconThis is the very worst wickedness that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
David Herbert LawrenceIntuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them nor intuition without concepts can yield knowledge.
Immanuel KantShare your joy your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.
Sai BabaA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChecking 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 DruckerNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WellsKnowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel JohnsonBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonThe hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings, one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood paste upon the body as by taking a bath, one does not become so much satisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him, and salvation is not attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge.
ChanakyaThe first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHis priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew but rather to impress upon them that nothing not even... knowledge was foolproof.
J. K. RowlingI think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
Charlie SheenA person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.
Sai BabaThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais NinKnowledge has to be improved challenged and increased constantly or it vanishes.
Peter DruckerKnowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.
Sai BabaScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganDo I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.
Michael JordanWe 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 AquinasAnti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that Isaac Asimov
He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth grain and knowledge and in taking his meals will be happy
ChanakyaThe two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene DescartesKnowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonThere's no reason to change what you are but if you're not being you then you need to acknowledge that.
Marilyn MansonZeal will do more than knowledge.
William HazlittKnowledge is not eating and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent, it is a salutation not an embrace.
George SantayanaThere's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
Aldous HuxleyEverything united in her, good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart
Jane AustenFor knowledge itself is power.
Francis BaconAll the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth GalbraithIt's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Doug CouplandMen honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
ZhuangziWhen 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
ConfuciusScientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge but as they grow more elaborate scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
Isaac AsimovKnowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PlatoToday knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Druckerquestions about our silver position that we had received from regulatory authorities led us to believe that they wished us to publicly acknowledge this investment.
Warren BuffettLeisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel JohnsonI'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Will SmithAll our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel KantThought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous HuxleyWe own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb ColtonIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinThe knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise PascalProperty may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power, but character health knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger BabsonVanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise PascalKnowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonOld age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.
Sai BabaSome men are just as firmly convinced of what they think, as others of what they know.
AristotleSexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened actually because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Alice WalkerWe 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 KafkaKnowledge the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action, the senses the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Friedrich SchillerYou feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime because deep down it's not a legitimate regime it doesn't represent the will of the people it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
Hillary Clinton