Quotes About Knowledge

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.