K Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with K. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.”
Source: Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon Series
“Knowledge has a beginning but no end.”
Source: Yoga: A Gem for Women
“Knowledge has a depth. Some swim on the surface, some dive down deeper”
“Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.”
“Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.”
“Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.”
“Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.”
“Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.”
“Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.”
Source: The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
“Knowledge has great riches. Understanding has extraordinary treasure. Wisdom has exponential wealth.”
“Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.”
Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College
“Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.”
“Knowledge has no edge that it neither ends nor retires”
“Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.”
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated”
“Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.”
“Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.”
“Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.”
“Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.”
“Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.”
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
“Knowledge has two extremes which meet; one is the pure natural ignorance of every man at birth, the other is the extreme reached by great minds who run through the whole range of human knowledge, only to find that they know nothing and come back to the same ignorance from which they set out, but it is a wise ignorance which knows itself. Those who stand half-way have put their natural ignorance behind them without yet attaining the other; they have some smattering of adequate knowledge and pretend to understand everything. They upset the world and get everything wrong.”
Source: Pensées
“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.”
“Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“Knowledge hears, understanding hearkens, wisdom listens.”
“Knowledge helps its enemies, but ignorance harms its friends.”
“Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.”
Source: The Culture of Education
“Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.”
“Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.”
“Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind.”
“Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.”
Source: On War
“Knowledge in your mind is no match for wisdom in your soul.”
“Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.”
“Knowledge increases fear of Allah in our minds and love of Allah in our hearts.”
“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”
“Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“Knowledge is
Bought only with a weary care,
And wisdom means a world of pain.”
Source: Songs of the Sierras
“Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding.”
Source: Unearthing
“Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.”
“Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match”
“Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”
Source: Raven's Shadow
“Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.”
“Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.”
“Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.”
Source: Outlander: Short Stories and Essays
“Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.”
“Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.”
“Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.”
“Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.”
Source: The Broken Path