975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.”— Charles Stanley

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”— Arthur Conan Doyle

“My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.”— Sonny Perdue

“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.”— Alexander the Great

“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.”— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.”— Anthony J. D'Angelo

“The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.”— Ernest Holmes

“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”— Will Durant

“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.”— Charles Caleb Colton

“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”— Alvin Toffler

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”— David Herbert Lawrence

“Research is creating new knowledge.”— Neil Armstrong

“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.”— Vine Deloria, Jr.

“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”— John Locke

“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

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

“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

“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

“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”— William Hazlitt

“In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.”— Janet Jackson

“Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.”— William S. Burroughs

“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.”— Alfred North Whitehead

“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