Quotes and sayings about tag  #knowledge

Quotes and sayings about tag  knowledge

133 Quotes

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Malcolm X

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Malcolm X

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Margaret Mitchell

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Marguerite Yourcenar

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn Vos Savant

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Mark Twain

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Meister Eckhart

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Neil Gaiman

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Oscar Wilde

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

Patricia Briggs

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Plato

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

Rae Carson

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

Ravi Zacharias

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Rick Riordan

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Russell T. Davies

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Seneca

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Sigmund Freud

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Terry Goodkind

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Theodore Roosevelt

Scientia potentia est.Knowledge is power.

Thomas Hobbes

Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Umberto Eco

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