Top 1200 Pursuit Of Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

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

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

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

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

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

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!

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

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

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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