Quotes About Knowledge

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.