Quotes About Knowledge

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation's level of knowledge and sense of values.

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.