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Quotes About Knowledge

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.
~ Henry Martyn Robert
What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.
~ Oliver Smithies
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
~ David Amram
The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.
~ Luigi Colani
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
~ Frederick Lenz
Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.
~ Charlie Munger
You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.
~ Jim Carrey
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
~ Eliza Acton
I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
~ Gene Tunney
The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.
~ David Storey
It's not just the adage 'write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know.
~ Sarah Kay
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.
~ Carl Sagan
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
~ Rumi
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
~ George Reisman
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
~ John Piper
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
~ John Calvin
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
~ Ernst Cassirer
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
~ Austin O'Malley
The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
~ George Horace Lorimer
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
~ Arthur Erickson
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar