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Quotes About Knowledge

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
~ E. W. Howe
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
~ Samuel Johnson
If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.
~ Robert S. Mendelsohn
Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
~ Richard Holbrooke
Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.
~ C. West Churchman
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.
~ Muhammad Yunus
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
~ John Calvin
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
~ Ralph Thomas Walker
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
~ Polykarp Kusch
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
~ Ralph Cudworth
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
~ Zhuangzi
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
~ Charles Tart
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
~ Joseph Joubert
Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value
~ John Kao
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
~ Khaled Hosseini
If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.
~ Charlie Munger
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.
~ Jane Haddam
Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.
~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi