Top 1200 Useful Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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!

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

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

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

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

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

You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

...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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

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

My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There is no difference in a country between military, economic, and political affairs. It's useful for Business Insider to divide things that way. That's useful for a college program. But a country is a country. How do you understand China's economy without China's army? If you take these all into account you're ready to explain a question like, "How come the US doesn't have a debt problem?"

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.

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

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.