Quotes About Knowledge

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.