Quotes About Knowledge

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.