Knowledge Quotes - Page 9

• I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Learning

  Life on the Mississippi ch. 6 (1883)

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• One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

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• Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

  Moliere

  Two, Literature, Fine

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• You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Differences, May

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

  Voltaire

  Ignorance, Would Be, Superstitions

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• There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

  Brigham Young

  Wisdom, Light, Source

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• Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Too Much, Enough, Nobody Knows

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• It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Fitness, Cancer, Voyages Of Discovery

  Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

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• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Knowing Who You Are, Ignorant

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• Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Science, Littles, Ought

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• A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Doe, Knows

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• Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Gains, Guru

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• As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Intelligence, Mysterious

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Fashion, Ignorance

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• Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Eternity

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• The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Wisdom, Soulmate

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• The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Yoga, Feelings

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• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Honesty, Ignorance, White

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.

  Willis R. Whitney

  Death, Mean, Science

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• What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science - and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.

  Alexandre Koyre

  Science, Common Sense, Reform

  "Galileo to Plato". Journal of the History of Ideas, 1957.

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• The mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching out to busy moms because that's what I am. That's what I know, and I know this woman has been underserved.

  Kathy Ireland

  Mom, Busy, Reaching

  "CNN Saturday" with Catherine Callaway, July 20, 2002.

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• The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

  Sun Tzu

  Conflict, Unnecessary, Strategy

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Science, Technology, Ethical Issues

  "Who's to blame?" by Lewis Wolpert, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2002.

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• Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Charming, Attractive

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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