Knowledge Quotes - Page 21

• A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

  Frank Oz

  Defense, Use, Anger And Fear

  "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tree, Paradise, Ancient

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

  Eli Broad

  Wisdom, Money, Real

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• The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Knowing, Bent

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Celtic Literature”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

  Khalil Gibran

  Shadow

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny Inspirational, Men, Aggravation

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

  Rick Riordan

  Fate, Knowing, Too Much

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Health, Medicine

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• An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

  Jay Abraham

  Wisdom, Simple, Decision

  Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.8, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.68, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Bounds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Eye, Science, Doubt

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• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Learning, Management

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.40, Routledge

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• Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Fall, Get Up

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Men

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Intuition, Wonderful

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

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• Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Pursuit, Difficulty, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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• There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Hundred, Visuals

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• As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Intelligence, Mysterious

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

  Albert Einstein

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, 1983.

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• I'm often asked how to start investing with little or no money. Please hear this as this is the hardest thing for people to understand: you do NOT invest with money! You invest with your mind! No matter what the field, your biggest asset is your mind. Once you have knowledge, you find deals, find your team and use other people’s money. You sell the deal and your team to get investment money.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Money, Team

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 24, 2013

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• The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Wisdom, Keys, Doubt

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• It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Wonder, Worst, Knows

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.286, Hamilton Books

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• Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Toppings, Stills

  'Shakespeare' (1849)

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