Quotes on Knowledge

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.