Knowledge Quotes - Page 14

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Know or listen to those who know.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

The best prescription is knowledge.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they may have; there are many reasons why knowledge on this subject is not possible, owing to the lack of evidence and the shortness of human life.