975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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 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

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”— Augustus Hare

“Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.”— Carl Clinton Van Doren

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”— Leo Buscaglia

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”— Charles Morgan

“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”— Joseph Wood Krutch

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”— Louis Pasteur

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”— Ralph W. Sockman

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”— Anais Nin

“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.”— Mikhail Bakunin

“Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.”— Jacques Barzun

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

“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

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

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

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

“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