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Francis Bacon

For knowledge itself is power.

Chandler Burr

latin: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.; always seen as Knowledge is power and appears inscribed on the wall of the north lobby of The Library of Congress (The Thomas Jefferson Building)

Confucius

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

Samuel Johnson

Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge i

Bertrand Russell

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is

Adlai Stevenson

Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which he attains by means of the senses. For this cause he must have the phantasms and the forms of objects present in themselves and in their likenesses; otherwi

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

James A. Perkins

The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.

Lee C. Bollinger

Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means.

Jeremy Taylor

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

George Will

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Vine Deloria

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Confucius

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

Vernon Cooper

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Gary Ryan Blair

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.

Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

American Indian Proverb

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Socrates

I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Lord Ritchie-Calder

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

James Madison

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Alfred Jules Ayer

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

Anatole France

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Edward Bedore

The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.

Sir Arthur Eddington

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

George Bernard Shaw

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Sir Arthur Eddington

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure.

G Gaia

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

Francis Bacon

For knowledge itself is power.

American Indian Proverb

Knowledge that is not used is abused.

George Santayana

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

French Proverb

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

American Indian Proverb

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.

Kahlil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Unknown

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

West African Saying

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.

Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.

Barbara McClintock

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say.

George Dorsey

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 397.

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

Saadi

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Juvenal

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Ludwig Boerne

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Johann von Goethe

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.

Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Doris Day

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Norman Juster

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fu

That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

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

I have taken all knowledge to by my province.

Knowledge is expensive.

Knowledge is power.

The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Without my ignorance, your knowledge would be meaningless

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

Science is organized knowledge.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.