Quotes about knowledge
knowledge knowing true-knowledge
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. Socrates
knowledge all-things knows
All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less. John Owen
knowledge firsts knows
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. John Milton
knowledge israel battle
They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements. Norman Finkelstein
knowledge two style
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. Neil Gaiman
knowledge science information
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. John Naisbitt
knowledgeable position activity
Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating. John Thain
knowledge writing men
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. Sherwood Anderson
knowledge knowing knows
They are so knowing, that they know nothing. Terence
knowledge capacity humans
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited. Nicolas Chamfort
knowledge men victory
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! Nikos Kazantzakis
knowledge mean essence
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner. Niels Bohr
knowledge ideas ties
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
knowledge order littles
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order...we take what we know a little too seriously.
knowledge math intuition
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. Morris Kline
knowledge math body
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
knowledge learning justice
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. John Ruskin
knowledge law facts
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
knowledge giving pleasure
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
knowledge helping-others people
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
knowledge knowing bent
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ... Matthew Arnold
knowledge wells knows
It is well for one to know more than he says Plautus
knowledge may masters
In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good. Plato
knowledge people pleasure
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
knowledge together tongue
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
knowledge sake moments
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
knowledge buying meat
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
knowledge glad
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
knowledge rust rich
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. Philip Sidney
knowledge action should
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
knowledge hands people
There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it. Peter Drucker
knowledge-workers assets institutions
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
knowledge learning volunteer
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.