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Knowledge Quotes and Sayings

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.
Orison Swett Marden

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
G H Lewes

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J Watson

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Imannuel Kant

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois

I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.
George MacDonald

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian

Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?
Woody Allen

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.Deep thoughts indeed!
Ralph Cudworth

My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent.
Golda Meir

Our knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James Gibson

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
Thomas Hood

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F Drucker

However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond.
William George Armstrong

That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
Benjamin Rush

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Raymond Aron

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban Berg

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolas Copernicus

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead

My mother called me after one of the first episodes of MTV’s Loveline and said, ‘So, when did you become so knowledgeable about oral sex?’
Catherine McCord

And the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
Petrarch

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Kong Fu Zi

Companies have to be wary of the fact that staff don’t move on too quickly these days else the requisite knowledge base required to manage enough elements may be lost.
Howard Gardner

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl Buck

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy.
Franklin Buchanan

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one’s education. if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!
Fannie Farmer

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James

Without my knowledge or consent The Edge – made up of out-takes – was released. Even today, it remains a bitter memory.
Shelley Berman

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it, and as weak as its weakest link.
Lady Johnson

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