Knowledge Quotes

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

~ James Mark Baldwin

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

~ Louis Pasteur

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

~ Jean-François Lyotard

Science is organized knowledge.

~ Herbert Spencer

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

~ Will Harvey

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

~ Allan Savory

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

~ Amelia Barr

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

~ Philip K. Dick

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

~ Polykarp Kusch

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

~ Ernest Lawrence

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

~ Judith Tarr

Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery.

~ Henry Gray

More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.

~ Rex Tillerson

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

~ Afrika Bambaataa

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

~ Frank Peretti

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

~ Duane G. Carey

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

~ Ernest Holmes

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

~ Luther Burbank

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

~ Aristotle

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

~ Dayananda Saraswati

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

~ Leo Buscaglia

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

~ Shiv Nadar

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

~ Albert Camus

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

~ Bertolt Brecht

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

~ Grace Jones

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

~ H. Rap Brown

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

~ Laurene Powell Jobs

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

~ John Cheever

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

~ Arthur Miller

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

~ Vince Lombardi

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

~ James E. Faust

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

~ Elizabeth Kenny

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

~ Antonio Gramsci

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

~ Ralph Cudworth

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

~ James Gleick

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

~ Aldous Huxley

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck