Knowledge Quotes - Page 14

• Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Education, Money, Learning

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 13, 2017

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• The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Secret, Foundation

  New Atlantis (1627)

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• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  Hippocrates

  Science, Men, Sight

  Hippocrates (1931). “Hippocrates”

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• Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Opportunity, Empowering

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• Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

  John Calvin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Truth

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.173, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

  Hasan of Basra

  Education, Wisdom, Islamic

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• What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.
  [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce
  D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle
  D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Mittens, Slippers, Fool

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• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Acceptance, Discovery

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Learning, Men, Ideas

  "Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763)". Dialogue by Voltaire, Dialogue XIV. " Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

  Helen Keller

  World, Construction, Imaginary

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.44, The Floating Press

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

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Body

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

  Plato

  Science, Dedication, Together

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• No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Science, Men

  'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 19

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Thinking, Understanding

  Immanuel Kant (1965). “Critique of pure reason”

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• Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Moving, Circles

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• You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Matter, Causes

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.126, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Teacher, Lying, Knowing

  "Yo-Yo Ma". Book by Richard Worth, 2007.

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• Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 06, 2017

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• Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Useless, Facts

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Library, May, Disorder

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

  Moliere

  Two, Literature, Fine

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• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

  Voltaire

  Ignorance, Would Be, Superstitions

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• Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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• From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

  British Medical Journal 1: 671 (1953)

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• Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.19, Open Road Media

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