Knowledge Quotes - page 4

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. (Alexander Pope)
A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. View quote
Saadi
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. View quote
Max Heindel
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Activity is the only road to knowledge. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production... (Jean-François Lyotard)
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. View quote
John Archibald Wheeler
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. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security. View quote
Samuel Adams
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. View quote
Marcus Garvey
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. View quote
Hans Blix
4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. View quote
Alvin Toffler
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps. (Douglas Hofstadter)
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. View quote
Mickey Spillane
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. View quote
Bertrand Russell