Quotes About Knowledge

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.