975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.” — Jeremy Taylor

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“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.” — Abigail Adams

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“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.” — Stokely Carmichael

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“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“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

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“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.” — Zhuangzi

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“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.” — Hippocrates

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“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

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“We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.” — Anne Sullivan Macy

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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” — John Calvin

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“If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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“Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“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

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“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.” — Herbie Hancock

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“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

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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.” — Walter Lippmann

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“The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.” — Daniel D. Palmer

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“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

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“When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.” — Walter Mosley

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“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.” — John Locke

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“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

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