Top 1200 Knowledge And Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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.

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

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

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

A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.

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

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

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

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

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

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

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.

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

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

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

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

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

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.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

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

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

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

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

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

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

I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

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

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

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

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

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

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

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

Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.

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

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.

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

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

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

We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don't have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.

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