Quotes About Knowledge

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

Art without knowledge is nothing!