Knowledge Quotes

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

~ Ralph Thomas Walker

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

~ Augustus Hare

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

~ Leo Buscaglia

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

~ Charles Morgan

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

~ Sigmund Freud

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

~ John Locke

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

~ John Oliver

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

~ George Herbert

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

~ John C. Maxwell

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

~ Walter Cronkite

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

~ Henry Petroski

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

~ Bertrand Russell

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.

~ Shakira

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

~ Ariana Grande

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

~ James Altucher

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

~ Helen Keller

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

~ Arthur Rimbaud

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

~ Thomas Aquinas

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

~ Magnus Scheving

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

~ Frank Mccourt

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

~ Mireille Guiliano

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

~ Mira Nair

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

~ Michael Polanyi

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

~ Paul Greengard

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

~ John Warnock

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

~ Gabrielle Union

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

~ Kurt Russell

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

~ Dewitt Clinton

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

~ Jamais Cascio

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.

~ Max Heindel

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

~ Henry Petroski

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

~ Roy Romer

Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

~ Naveen Jain

When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.

~ Tyler Cowen

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

~ Juvenal

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer