Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
~By Marvin Minsky ~
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
~By Frank Oz ~
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
~By Milan Kundera ~
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
~By John Tuley ~
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
~By Albert Claude ~
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
~By Ernst Kaltenbrunner ~
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
~By Carl Jung ~
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
~By Herbert Simon ~
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
~By Josh Billings ~
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
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.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
~By Virginia Gildersleeve ~
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
~By William Cowper ~
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
~By Mary Astell ~
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
~By Dolley Madison ~
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
~By H. G. Wells ~
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.
~By Pat Robertson ~
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
~By Wilbur Wright ~
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
~By Karl Popper ~
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
~By James Madison ~
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
~By Bayard Rustin ~
If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
~By Richard Price ~
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
~By Joseph Story ~
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
~By Van Wyck Brooks ~
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~By Albert Camus ~
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
~By Maria Monk ~
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
Play is the beginning of knowledge.
~By George Dorsey ~
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
~By Prem Rawat ~
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
~By Ernst Mach ~
When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
~By Adele Faber ~
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.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
~By Hippocrates ~
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
~By Emma Thompson ~
I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
~By Kurt Weill ~
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
~By Roy Moore ~
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
~By David Cronenberg ~
I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
~By Archie Shepp ~
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
~By George Eliot ~
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
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.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
~By Sergei Eisenstein ~
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.
~By Tommy Bond ~
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
~By Scott Adams ~
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
~By Jane Austen ~
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
~By Roger Babson ~
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
~By Van Wyck Brooks ~
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
~By Zhuangzi ~
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
~By David Hume ~
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
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.
~By Voltaire ~
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
~By Luther Burbank ~
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
~By John Warnock ~
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
~By Kong Fu Zi ~
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
~By Eleonora Duse ~
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
~By Judy Holliday ~
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
~By Jean Piaget ~
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
~By Franz Kafka ~
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