knowledge quotes

• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. (Bertrand Russell) [life/love/knowledge]
• What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. (Bertrand Russell) [men/knowledge]
• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. (Samuel Johnson) [integrity/knowledge/knowledge/integrity]
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) [imagination/more/knowledge]
• The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. (John F. Kennedy) [knowledge/ignorance]
• Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all. (Henry Ward Beecher) [knowledge/knowledge/teach/teach]
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (John Locke) [reading/mind/knowledge/thinking]
• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. (John Locke) [knowledge]
• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana) [knowledge/happiness]
• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/knowledge/mankind/mankind]
• There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ( Socrates) [knowledge/evil/ignorance]
• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. ( Socrates) [knowledge]
• The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. (William Wordsworth) [pleasure/knowledge/human/society]
• Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. (John Adams) [knowledge/people]
• Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. (Joseph Addison) [knowledge/virtue]
• Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. (Mario Andretti) [knowledge/experience]
• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ( Aristotle) [knowledge/power]
• Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. (Thomas Arnold) [knowledge/value/more]
• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise. (Jacques Attali) [knowledge/look/science/measure]
• Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon) [knowledge/power]
• Knowledge and human power are synonymous. (Francis Bacon) [knowledge/human/power]
• There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. (Pearl Bailey) [life/knowledge]
• The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. (James Baldwin) [price/knowledge/ugly]
• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. (Henry Ward Beecher) [education/knowledge/men]
• Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. (Henry Ward Beecher) [nature/more/knowledge/more]
• Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. (David Ben-Gurion) [courage/knowledge/knowledge/fear]
• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. (Georges Bernanos) [punishment/knowledge/speak/faith]
• Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. () [knowledge/money/more/more]
• To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. (William Blake) [knowledge/knowledge]
• The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. (Bertolt Brecht) [knowledge/crazy]
• The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. (Italo Calvino) [knowledge/attraction]

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