975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.” — Blaise Pascal

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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.” — Josh Billings

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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” — Socrates

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“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.” — Franz Kafka

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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.” — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.” — Michel Foucault

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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.” — Doris Day

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“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“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

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“I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.” — Kerry Packer

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“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.” — Voltaire

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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan

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“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.” — Khalil Gibran

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“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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