Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is great; wisdom is even better.

Creativity comes from knowledge. You must have knowledge of your own product or service, your competition, your target audience, your marketing area, the economy, current events, and the trends of the time. With this knowledge, you'll have what it takes to develop a creative marketing program, and you'll produce creative marketing materials.

Where were Christians before Freud? Up a tree? Were the bereft of all crucial knowledge about man's relationship to God and his neighbor? Was the church's counseling a hopeless, primitive, stone-age activity that should have disappeared with flint knives? Were Christians shut up to sinful, harmful living before the advent of psychotherapy? Did God withhold truth for living until our present age?

For persuasive purposes, the opinion of your audience is as good as what it knows, and what it thinks is true counts the same as the truth.

La verdad surge de la discusión entre amigos. DAVID HUME

There is no excuse among professional officers for not having a 5000 year old mind.

Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material.

Ignorance is the enemy not just of our democratic system but also of our moral integrity as a nation, as the land of the free and home of the brave.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Believe me, all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

I don't know a lot about

Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more.

Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.

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