Knowledge Quotes - Page 16

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

Foreknowledge is power.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

Knowledge is only potential power.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

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

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.