Quotes About Knowledge

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

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

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.