Quotes
Quotes about Knowledge
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. â¢Thomas Hobbes Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. â¢Johann Kaspar Lavater It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. â¢Fred Allen We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity.
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.]
Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
