Top 1200 Background Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a staggering thought. There is far more classified knowledge in the world than unclassified. And that disparity grows all the time.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

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

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.