Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. S. Gilbert

With the limited knowledge I have of the situation, I would not have signed the petition.

William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Verily there is no purifier in this world like knowledge.

Veda means knowledge and the vedas are really an ocean of knowledge.

Shannon Miller

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

Brian Tracy

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

Brian Tracy

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

Jane Goodall

Become as knowledgeable as possible.

Juvenal

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Juvenal

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

This was a reputable dealer, not a back-alley thing. She had no knowledge that there had been any impropriety at all.

Blaise Pascal

What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

Blaise Pascal

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Blaise Pascal

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Blaise Pascal

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal

It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Daniel H. Pink

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

Clarence Day

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

Arthur Guiterman

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

Berthold Auerbach

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

Bob Berg

Somebody in their 50s is going to have a lot more not only technical knowledge, but also street knowledge than somebody in their 20s who's still on a learning curve.

Some offer their wealth, their austerity, and their practice of yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics with strict vows offer their study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.

Bruce Catton

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

Archilochus

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

We're looking to see if this person (Dale) had knowledge of the animal's prior behavior.

Auguste Comte

Foreknowledge is power.

Auguste Comte

In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws-that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.

Auguste Comte

The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Charles Bukowski

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.