Quotessence
Home / Topics / Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge Quotes

Browse 6283 quotes about Knowledge.

Related topics

KnowsScienceMenLearningIfsWorldIgnoranceMindWisdomPeopleEducationInspirationalThinkingKnowingManagementMayLifeHumansLittlesWayUseDoeUnderstandingTruthAccountsFactsNeedsBelieveGivingInformationShouldFirstsKnownMeanEndsWellsHas BeensIdeasIgnorantDesireEducationalImportantMathematicsWantLyingMadeWiseActionBookDiscoverySelf KnowledgeValuesReasonLogicSeemsArtBeliefMathSelfGodKindMatterRealSuccessChildrenLoveTaoismIntelligenceSaidScientistTwoWholeBodyEnoughKnowledge WisdomLimitsLongObjectsUniverseAgePhilosophyHeartNaturalAsksCertainDecisionMotivationalOrderPersonsSpiritualBusinessExperienceLife IsReligionSoulStudyTeacherTeachingTryingAblemore

Knowledge Quotes

“The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!”

IfsGodMightGoalReligiousKnowledgeLearningStudyWorshipSingingUltimatePraiseTheologyJoyfulPastorTheologianIdolatryUltimate GoalKnowledge Of GodPraise GodDoxology
Author:Sam Storms
Create image

“Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

ScienceLostGivenKnowledgeRichGraceTeacherAppreciationTortureJewelsImpartInspirational TeacherGreat TeachingBeing A TeacherConcealment
Book:The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings
Create image

“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”

KnowsMenMadeSchoolScienceValuesBornKnowledgeTeacherAmountBirthCapacityDeterminationTestsExtraordinaryDetermineAccomplishAccomplishmentAcquireGood ManRecallsAcquisitionEagerness
Book:Prejudices: Third Series
Create image

“I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.”

GivingChildrenLittlesHas BeensRealFactsScienceEducationKnowledgeStudyTeacherTeachingModelsOur ChildrenMereHarmObservationInstructionBeing RealParrotsPhysiologyDiagramsLittle Knowledge
Book:Science and Culture: And Other Essays
Create image

“There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.”

Has BeensMomentsPainSpiritualChoicesSpiritualityForgetKnownKnowledgeHonorBreatheRealizationThat MomentRealisingContinuingCan NotStoppingForget ItExceedDiscomfortThresholdUnthinkableSpiritual TransformationThere Comes A TimeThinkablePain Threshold
Book:Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart
Create image

“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”

WorldHumansScienceHumanityEvilResultsEffortKnowledgeMovementIgnoranceElementsSpreadResistanceIgnorantFrictionUnificationRetard
Book:The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of
Create image

“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.”

TwoPastHumanityWealthPowerfulKnowledgeEconomyTakenEnvironmentEconomicCenturySecurityIgnoranceMaterialsDevelopmentComfortEconomicsIgnorantMost PowerfulElitesBrutalOver The PastEconomic DevelopmentPersonal Health
Author:Ross Garnaut
Create image

“According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.”

WellsMayCharacterEyeScienceHumanityWealthSinPleasurePrinciplesKnowledgeSacrificeHard WorkMoralityWorshipConscienceSevenDefinitionsCommerceBiographiesWithout SacrificeSeven Sins
Book:Jimmy Carter
Create image

“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!”

IfsKnowsFeelsTryingWellsMayHardBigsScienceAsksCompanyKnowledgeStudentsHard WorkInvolvingMoleculesGood Company
Author:George Wald
Create image

“Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.”

KnowsWayFirstsDoeMatterActionAttitudeResponsibilityKnowledgeDoubtNo Matter WhatWarriorTaking ResponsibilityRemorseDon JuanJuanWay Of The WarriorSpiritual Warrior
Book:The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
Create image

“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”

KnowsMenFeelsMayHas BeensFactsPainSciencePleasurePrinciplesKnowledgeStruggleObjectsParticularHe ManBuiltDifficultyPainfulConnectedContemplationDisgustingMathematicianChemist
Book:Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode
Create image

“We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.”

KnowsWorldWayMayHumanityUnderstandingKnowledgeKnowingInstrumentsNeighborBest WayIntrospectionUnderstanding The World
Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
Create image

“Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?”

RealGodUseRealityScienceNightCitiesKnownAcceptingKnowledgeSkyEffectsStrangeMaterialsGuidesDesignerAirplaneAccuratePhysicistMeasurementAirlineNight SkyElectronsRationale
Author:Wernher von Braun
Create image