KNOWLEDGE QUOTES V

quotations about knowledge

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

ALVIN TOFFLER

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Men have hunger, sleep, fear and carnal intercourse in common with the lower animals. It is only knowledge that a man has more than they. Those men who have not it may be regarded as beasts.

CHANAKYA

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The knowledge of useful things is a purse seldom lost.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

CHARLES DE LINT

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Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

IVAN PANIN

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Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

DUSTY BAKER

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Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

TIM LEBBON

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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

CHARLES WAGNER

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Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

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All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

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I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

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The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

GIACOMO LEOPARDI

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All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom.

PLATO

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Knowledge of the world depends on the power of drawing general inferences from individual examples; and he is the most likely to be correct who has the greatest number of facts at his command.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

MARGARET FULLER

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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

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Knowledge, among diverse conditions, has these two--that what we know of anything will depend--first, on our size relative to it, and, secondly, on our distance from it. For if we are too far away, we shall not see it at all; and if too near, we shall be entangled in its parts, not seeing it in unity; while if in mind or body we be not large enough to couple with the object, our best understanding will be but piecemeal knowledge, take a mite whose feet tickle our finger; to the insect we must appear as to our body very differently from the manner in which we must see the creature. In like manner, we perceive a great mountain, which is unknown to the squirrel sporting on it, and more hid still from the cicada nibbling a leaf in the forest on it. A ball hurled from a gun across our vision and close to us, at a thousand miles an hour we cannot see; but we see the moon well, though its speed is more than two thousand miles an hour. By reason of the distance, the moon seems even not to move at all; and if we were not large enough in mind to study the moon, how could we know its motion, or how think of it except as done in leaps, since we could not observe the transition? If we were not much larger creatures in Nature's eye--which judges always according to power of thought--than a basin of water, we might be amazed to find it warm to one hand and cold to the other (as Berkeley has set forth), and led, perhaps, to fantastic dreams of two natures in one--as many as ever amused a medieval Aristotelian. These instances--and many more, easily multiplied--will show how distance and relative size affect knowledge, which I shall take as allowed.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

SRI AUROBINDO

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