Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Warren G. Bennis

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Will Rogers

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Yuri Kochiyama

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

Zhuangzi

For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

Zhuangzi

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

Zhuangzi

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

William Hazlitt

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Wendell Berry

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

Walter Pater

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Vladimir Nabokov

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

William Osler

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.