Knowledge Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Patience, Fighting, The End Of The Day

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011

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

  Moliere

  Two, Literature, Fine

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Travel

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Intelligent, People, Intelligence

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Learning

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• Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  Joseph Hall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Science

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82

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• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, True Friend, Knowing Nothing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Experience, Essentials

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

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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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• Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

  Mick Dodson

  Education, Morning, Children

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  Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Divine Comedy, Virtue

  'Divina Commedia' 'Inferno' canto 26, l. 118

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

  Audre Lorde

  Emotional, Feelings, Intuition

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Discovery, Imperfection

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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• An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

  Jay Abraham

  Wisdom, Simple, Decision

  Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.8, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

  Ethel Mumford

  Memorable, Persons, Knows

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• What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.68, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

  Tobsha Learner

  Information, Empires, Mortar

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• Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Useless, Facts

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Children, Educational, Exercise

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sir James Black Baillie (1931). “The Phenomenology of Mind”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

  C.P. Snow

  Responsibility, Science, People

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• Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Consistency, Culture

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