Quotes About Knowledge

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.