Quotes About Knowledge

Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.

Galileo was jailed for asserting that the earth was round.5

Ignorance, mediocrity, and mistakes run rampant when organizations fail to link the right people to the right information at the right time. This

As a boss, you need to establish a pecking order where people who know the most about a problem wield the greatest influence over what is done. You especially need to watch who talks the most (and least). Don't let your people fall prey to the blabbermouth theory of leadership. At least in Western countries, people who talk first and most frequently usually wield excessive influence over others – even when they spew out nonsense.

And sometimes—if you are observant and patient—being invisible gives you access to information that can help you turn the tables on powerful assholes.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. (History,) therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of (philosophy).

Nothing beats having the Word of God stored away in the chambers of the mind.

Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You. – John 21:17

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. – 2 Peter 3:18

From childhood you have know the Holy Scriptures. – 2 Timothy 3:15

In summation, if someone feels the psychological need to hold court, that's his business. Your job is to mind your business. Don't allow yourself to be intimidated by someone else's knowledge—or apparent knowledge. What another person knows or doesn't know will not affect your success one way or another, so from your standpoint it's an irrelevancy

My objective at these buyer-seller meetings was to display so much knowledge about the property and the closing of the deal that even the seller would be embarrassed to challenge my right to a commission. (If you're chuckling and shaking your head from side to side over that last comment, you're starting to get it, because my objective proved to be nothing more than wishful thinking. Sellers always challenge agents' commissions.)

Sentir la necesidad de convencer a los demás de que uno tiene razón es algo que procede de la religión. Yo simplemente me contento con saber que tengo razón, aunque los demás no lo sepan.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry it is the exact opposite!

The atomic scientists had become important people. That was their first discovery when they returned from their laboratories to the world at large. "Before the war we were supposed to be completely ignorant of the world and inexperienced in its ways. But now we are regarded as the ultimate authorities on all possible subjects, from nylon stockings to the best for of international organisation.

vision, without which we perish, is required to open us to willingness to use what we know and to work to extract hard reality from a dream.

Knowledge may be power, but not without the willingness, and the release from inhibiting mind-sets, to use that knowledge.

The grand design of education is to excite, rather than pretend to satisfy, an ardent thirst for information; and to enlarge the capacity of the mind, rather than to store it with knowledge, however useful.

Knowledge is but a tool. The spirit is of the essence.

Catherine, who knew little about sex, about erections and foreskins, and, certainly, nothing about phimosis, knew well what was expected of wives in a royal marriage.