Knowledge Quotes - Page 9

• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Education, Reading, Passion

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• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Business

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

  Clifford Stoll

  Wisdom, Learning, Data

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• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Greatness

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2011

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• Information is not knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Thought Provoking, Intelligence

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• I am not young enough to know everything.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Athlete, Humility

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Book, Teaching

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Technology, Information, Lost

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

  Audre Lorde

  Emotional, Feelings, Intuition

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Cosmos, Stuff

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Discovery, Imperfection

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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• Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

  Ethel Mumford

  Memorable, Persons, Knows

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• Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

  Tobsha Learner

  Information, Empires, Mortar

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• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Discovery, Finals

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• Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.

  Max Planck

  Mean, Science, Intuition

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• You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Differences, May

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Imagination, Fool, Pedants

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• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Mean, Knowing

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• Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Taken, Wave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1588, Delphi Classics

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• I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Politics, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.454, Cosimo, Inc.

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