Knowledge Quotes

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
– Frank Carlucci
My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
– Emeril Lagasse
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
– Cat Stevens
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
– Carl Clinton Van Doren
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
– Samuel Smiles
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
– John Adams
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
– Samuel Johnson
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
– Henry Adams
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
– George Santayana
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
– Kofi Annan
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
– Novalis
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
– T. S. Eliot
Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
– Shia LaBeouf
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
– Doug Coupland
It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.
– David Krumholtz
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
– Sylvester Stallone
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
– Thomas Sowell
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
– Muhammad Iqbal
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
– Jean Piaget
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
– Dolley Madison
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
– James Smithson
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
– Thomas Friedman
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
– Roy Romer
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
– Muhammad Iqbal
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
– Jane Smiley
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
– William Shakespeare
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
– Matthew Simpson
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
– Benjamin Carson
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
– Connie Nielsen
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
– Maynard James Keenan
I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.
– Big Boi
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
– John Polkinghorne
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
– Susie Bright
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
– William Glasser
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
– William Glasser
I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
– Alton Brown
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
– Kurt Russell
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
– Michael Polanyi
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
– Mikhail Bakunin
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
– Alan Alda
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
– Spalding Gray
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
– Ang Lee
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
– Jimmy Carter
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
– Fannie Farmer
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
– Rocco DiSpirito
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
– Daisaku Ikeda
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
– Frances Wright
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
– Tom Shadyac
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
– William Hurt
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
– Samuel Johnson
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
– Jose Marti
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
– Kevin Mitnick
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
– Lafcadio Hearn
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
– Audrey Hepburn
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
– Alfred North Whitehead
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
– Marilyn French
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
– Khalil Gibran
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
– Bob Ney
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
– Havelock Ellis
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
– Garrett Hardin
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
– Clifford Stoll
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
– David Ben-Gurion
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
– Muhammad Iqbal
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
– Immanuel Kant
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
– Ernest Holmes
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
– William John Wills
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
– Dave Reichert
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
– Steve Wozniak
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
– Plato
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
– Carol Kane
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
– Charles De Secondat
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
– Voltaire
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
– David Cameron
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
– Conrad Black
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
– Marcus Garvey
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
– David Hume
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
– Sir Walter Scott
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
– Daisaku Ikeda
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
– Plato
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
– Daisaku Ikeda