Knowledge Quotes - page 5

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. (Theodore Roosevelt)
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. View quote
F. H. Bradley
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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! View quote
Richard Feynman
The true method of knowledge is experiment. View quote
William Blake
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. View quote
Henry Adams
If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions. (Susanne Langer)
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. View quote
Ralph Cudworth
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. View quote
Ralph Cudworth
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. View quote
Marcel Proust
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test, which is not fanciful save by trial. View quote
Sophocles
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. (Elbert Hubbard)
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas-in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. View quote
Meister Eckhart
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can. View quote
Edith Hamilton
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. View quote
Walter Scott