975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”— Moses Hadas

“No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.”— Anne Sullivan Macy

“Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.”— Karen Armstrong

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”— John Locke

“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.”— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”— Alfred North Whitehead

“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”— E. E. Cummings

“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.”— James Allen

“The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”— Thomas Huxley

“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”— Arthur Rimbaud

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”— Calvin Coolidge

“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

“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”— Rene Descartes

“The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”— Jeremy Bentham

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”— George Herbert

“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”— Milan Kundera

“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.”— Oswald Chambers

“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.”— Walter Lang

“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”— Elie Wiesel

“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”— Henry Miller

“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”— Charles Babbage

“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”— Baltasar Gracian

“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