975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“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

“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

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”— Isaac Asimov

“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?”— Will Harvey

“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

“Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.”— Georges Bernanos

“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”— Thomas Huxley

“On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.”— Hu Shih

“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”— Novalis

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”— Alfred North Whitehead

“There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.”— Celine Dion

“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

“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 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

“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”— Alfred North Whitehead

“These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.”— Lucy Powell

“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”— Robert Staughton Lynd

“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

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”— John Naisbitt

“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 believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”— Robert Fulghum

“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?”— Theodore Bikel

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”— Arnold Bennett

“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

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”— John Adams