Top 1200 Knowledge Gained Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

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

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

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

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

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

What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

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

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

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

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

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

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their knowledge! What must be the wisdom of Him, from whom all things derive their wisdom!

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say that I don't directly discuss the work of those philosophers who would disagree.) But even if we grant this, many will argue that scientific knowledge in humans, and, indeed, reflective knowledge in general, is quite different in kind from the knowledge we see in other animals.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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

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

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

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error. Therefore, we should take great care not to accept as true such properties of the numbers which we have discovered by observation and which are supported by induction alone. Indeed, we should use such a discovery as an opportunity to investigate more exactly the properties discovered and to prove or disprove them; in both cases we may learn something useful.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

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

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

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.