Knowledge Quotes - Page 9

• All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Land

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 17,

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• Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Diversity, Unity

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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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 final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Discovery, Finals

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• In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

  Henry Miller

  Witty, Ignorance, Horizon

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.262, New Directions Publishing

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

  Moliere

  Two, Literature, Fine

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• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  Hippocrates

  Science, Men, Sight

  Hippocrates (1931). “Hippocrates”

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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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• Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Eye, Science, Doubt

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• No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Science, Men

  'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 19

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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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• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Business

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

  Aristotle

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Drinking, Religion

  "A Mencken chrestomathy". Book by Henry Louis Mencken, 1949.

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• Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Ideas, Ends, Species

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  William Blake

  Experience, Action, Method

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

  Maria Mitchell

  Inspirational, Change, Educational

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• Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  True Friend, Betrayed, Shouting

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• Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

  The Weeknd

  Confucianism, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Philosopher

  Song: Montreal, 2011

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• Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

  Benedetto Croce

  Knowing, Leaving, Judgement

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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