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Quotes About Knowledge

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.
~ Vincent Connare
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!
~ Massimo Vignelli
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value
~ Bruce Mau
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.
~ Charles Darwin
A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
~ Albert Hadley
I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing
~ Donald A. Norman
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
~ Frans de Waal
The heart knows today what the mind will learn tomorrow.
~ Unknown
I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.
~ Mary Lou Jepsen
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
~ Will Durant
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
~ Epicurus
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
~ William Blake
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
~ Laurence Sterne
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing
~ Damon Knight
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
~ Honore de Balzac
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
~ Juan Enriquez
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
~ E. B. White
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
~ Stephen Hawking
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
~ Stephen Covey