Knowledge Quotations
Albert Einstein:
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we
currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover
and create. [Inventor]
Anais Nin:
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There
is always more mystery.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one
is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in
general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Bertrand Russell:
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. [British Philosopher]
Blaise Pascal:
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Buckminster Fuller:
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and
that is that no instruction book came with it.
Carl Jung:
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks
outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. [Psychologist]
Carl Rogers:
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of
knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we
may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for
self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Christopher Morley:
There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down.
Christopher Morley:
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea
yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Eden Phillpotts:
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow
sharper.
Epictetus:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Goethe:
Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
Henri Bergson:
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henry David Thoreau:
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau:
I was determined to know beans. Walden
Henry David Thoreau:
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and
ignorance.
Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. [French Philosopher]
Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. [French Philosopher]
James Madison:
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it,
is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison:
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
John Adams:
The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more
importance to the public than all the property of the rich men in the country.
John Dewey:
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the
forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating
and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in
the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment
of morals, politics, and religion. [The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy]
Kahlil Gibran:
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that
is idle. [Lebanese Writer]
Leonardo da Vinci:
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his
intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Malcolm Forbes:
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
Margaret Fuller:
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Mead:
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the
sum of accurate information in the world.
Maria Mitchell:
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the
more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable
of seeing.
Mark Twain:
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal,
valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly
be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is
buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half
of it is rotten. [1908, notebook]
Mark Twain:
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the
newspaper, you are misinformed.
Mark van Doren:
Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly
proportioned to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall
that piece of knowledge and use it better.
Martin Fischer:
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Med Yones:
Knowledge networks will revolutionize the
global economy. They will change the way we think, learn and work. The
prosperity of a nation and its industries will be determined to a large
degree by how well they can leverage global knowledge networks to
collaborate, innovate, develop and market their resources, products and
services - [IIM Vision]
Med Yones:
"Wrong decision are almost always based on lack of information or
misinformation" - Before making a decision ask your self, do I have all the
necessary information and did I validate it? [International Institute of Management]
Paulo Freire:
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate
integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and
bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which
men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to
participate in the transformation of their world.
Pearl S. Buck:
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to
do something well is to enjoy it.
Peter F. Drucker:
Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain
stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the
organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer.
Because its function is to put knowledge to work -- on tools, processes, and
products; on work; on knowledge itself -- it must be organized for constant
change.
Plato:
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which
is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. [Ancient Greek
Philosopher]
Proverbs 17:28:
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth
his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [The Bible]
Rachel Carson:
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the
emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the
seeds must grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that
thoughts rule the world.
Richard Cecil:
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Robert Fulghum:
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent
than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over
experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
Samuel Johnson :
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can
find information upon it.
Stephen Jay Gould:
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain
than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in
cotton fields and sweatshops.
Thomas H. Huxley:
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley:
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every
preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or
you will learn nothing.
Umberto Eco:
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that
is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an
underlying truth.
Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom
is of the future.
William Shakespeare:
Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. [British
Writer]
William Shakespeare:
It is a wise father that knows his own child. [British Writer]
William Shakespeare:
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. [British Writer]
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