Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Aldous Huxley

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Albert Einstein

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Sacha Guitry

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Wayne Newton

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

Ben Carson

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

bell hooks

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Alexander the Great

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Thomas A. Edison

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

We don't know for sure that Gov. Blagojevich is Official A. Even if he is Official A, it does not mean that he necessarily had knowledge of what is being alleged.

A. J. Liebling

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

A. A. Milne

"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.

Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Rusty Wallace

I think by the end of the year, he'd have a lot of knowledge. He'd be up on the wheel and ready to go then.

David Weinberger

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

Clifford Stoll

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Without knowledge a man is no better than an animal.

Georges St-Pierre

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Herodotus

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Derek Jeter

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

George Santayana

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

When you know that there is going to be a disaster, you can position knowledge and people.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

We saw it as a unique opportunity to use our knowledge to make this run smoothly.