Quotes About Knowledge

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Speculation is not knowledge.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.