975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”— Immanuel Kant

“I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.”— Sun Myung Moon

“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”— H. Rap Brown

“At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.”— Dave Reichert

“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.”— Robert Anthony

“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”— Jean Piaget

“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.”— Doug Coupland

“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.”— Zhuangzi

“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”— Will Durant

“Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.”— Tom Shadyac

“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.”— Maynard James Keenan

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”— Isaac Asimov

“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”— Abu Bakr

“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”— Louis L'Amour

“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”— Horace Mann

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”— G. I. Gurdjieff

“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”— Arthur Erickson

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”— Terry Pratchett

“The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.”— Charles Hodge

“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”— Meister Eckhart

“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”— Baltasar Gracian

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”— John Archibald Wheeler

“If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.”— Matthew Simpson

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”— John Locke

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”— Clifford Stoll