Knowledge Quotes

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.
– Jeffrey Kluger
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
– Thomas Sowell
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
– Russell Simmons
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
– Leonard Orr
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
– Albert J. Nock
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
– Irving Babbitt
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
– Van Wyck Brooks
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
– Tom Clancy
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
– Jean-Francois Lyotard
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
– Jean Piaget
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
– Will Durant
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
– John Boyd Orr
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
– John Charles Polanyi
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
– Plato
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
– Chanakya
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
– Brian Eno
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
– Robert Staughton Lynd
One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.
– Luc Montagnier
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
– Jean-Francois Lyotard
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
– Azar Nafisi
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
– Frederick Soddy
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
– David K. Shipler
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
– Ben Shahn
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.
– Marie de France
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
– Avicenna
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
– Ralph Cudworth
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
– William Ellery Channing
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
– Ellsworth Huntington
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
– Lord Mountbatten
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
– Khalil Gibran
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.
– Niklaus Wirth
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
– Meghan O'Rourke
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
– Antonio Gramsci
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
– Jane Campion
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
– Quentin Tarantino
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
– Ann Druyan
My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'
– Gina Carano
My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
– Randy Quaid
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
– George Andrew Olah
My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.
– Nicki Minaj
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
– Alban Berg
Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.
– Mike DeWine
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
– Richard King
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
– David Suzuki
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
– Charles Bowen
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
– Carl Jung
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
– Zhuangzi
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
– Lewis Thomas
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
– Ralph Thomas Walker
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
– Henning Mankell
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
– Linda Lavin
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
– Josiah Royce
Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
– James M. Baldwin
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
– Albert J. Nock
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
– John Adams
Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
– James Northcote
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
– David Amram
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
– W. Edwards Deming
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
– Friedrich Schiller
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
– Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
– George Eliot
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
– Bruce Lee
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
– John Tyndall
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
– William Penn
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
– Jeremy Collier
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
– Abu Bakr
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
– Robert Staughton Lynd
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
– Robin Morgan
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
– Shinichi Suzuki
Knowledge is never too dear.
– Francis Walsingham
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.
– George Santayana
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.
– Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
– Peter Singer
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
– Susan Orlean
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
– Terry Goodkind
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
– Francis Picabia
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
– Samuel Smiles
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
– Khalil Gibran
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
– Plato
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
– Hermann Hesse
Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
– William James
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
– Lauren Myracle
Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
– Gabrielle Union
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
– Nathan Deal
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
– John Hawkes
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
– Kevin Mitnick
It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.
– Jamie Oliver
It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.
– Cybill Shepherd
It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.
– Christopher Shays
It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.
– Chris Cleave
It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
– Michael Nesmith
It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
– Miranda Richardson
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
– Charles Babbage
It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
– Marc Davis