Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 11

Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 11 provides more knowledge quotes.

Image of Plato
Knowledge is true opinion.
- Plato
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Arnold H. Glasow
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
- Arnold H. Glasow
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Khalil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
- Khalil Gibran
Collection: Knowledge
Image of David Grinspoon
There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return to or preserve pure wilderness, we recognize that's an illusion, and we proceed under the new knowledge that we live, in fact, in a human-dominated planet.'
- David Grinspoon
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Clive Lewis
Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest for knowledge.
- Clive Lewis
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Bob Hawke
I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian economy, than anyone before me, or since, I would say.
- Bob Hawke
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Wilhelm Dilthey
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
- Wilhelm Dilthey
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Alex Haley
If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.
- Alex Haley
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Thomas Babington Macaulay
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Bill Shorten
Australia's economic future depends upon getting smarter. This means investing in the skills and knowledge of our workforce.
- Bill Shorten
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Howard Gardner
A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
- Howard Gardner
Collection: Knowledge
Image of George McGovern
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
- George McGovern
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Dave Martinez
I realized that I still had a lot to offer the game. My knowledge could maybe help younger guys. I enjoyed being around the clubhouse, on the field.
- Dave Martinez
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Eddie Bravo
So, when you train no-gi all the time, the no-gi style evolves quicker, twice as fast. Especially, the way we do it at 10th Planet, I am not just the one conveying the knowledge. All my students are involved.
- Eddie Bravo
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Sam Harris
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
- Sam Harris
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Kailash Satyarthi
Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
- Kailash Satyarthi
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Simon Toyne
The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
- Simon Toyne
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Image of Ernest Lawrence
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.
- Ernest Lawrence
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Jed Mercurio
I would compare my 'Frankenstein' to Cronenberg's remake of 'The Fly.' The monster in the original Fifties version of 'The Fly' was a crude, anatomical combination of man and insect, whereas Cronenberg's version exploited knowledge of DNA to depict him as a transgenic chimera.
- Jed Mercurio
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Luc Montagnier
One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.
- Luc Montagnier
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Chamath Palihapitiya
I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.
- Chamath Palihapitiya
Collection: Knowledge
Image of The Miz
I have all the accolades, all the experience, all the knowledge you could possibly want from a WWE number one draft pick.
- The Miz
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Image of Seth Shostak
The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.
- Seth Shostak
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Rajkummar Rao
I did not even know there are so many options for girls to wear. Playing a tailor gave me quite some knowledge about girls' clothing.
- Rajkummar Rao
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Boris Spassky
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
- Boris Spassky
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Ayumi Hamasaki
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
- Ayumi Hamasaki
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Chloe Benjamin
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.
- Chloe Benjamin
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Carolyn Porco
To my mind, most people go through life recoiling from its best parts. They miss the enrichment that just a basic knowledge of the physical world can bring to the most ordinary experiences.
- Carolyn Porco
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Trofim Lysenko
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
- Trofim Lysenko
Collection: Knowledge
Image of L. Lionel Kendrick
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
- L. Lionel Kendrick
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Raoul Vaneigem
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
- Raoul Vaneigem
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Walter Gilbert
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
- Walter Gilbert
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Image of Joshua Jackson
I have lots of hard-earned knowledge about women through heartbreak - and social faux pas. When I was about 15, thinking I was engaging in light conversation, I asked a woman when she was due. Of course, she wasn't pregnant. I learnt the lesson never to ask again.
- Joshua Jackson
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Grace Jones
Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.
- Grace Jones
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Peter Diamandis
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
- Peter Diamandis
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Dieter F. Uchtdorf
During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Tim Cook
I don't view Apple or myself as an activist. What we do is for some things where we think we have deep knowledge, or think we do, or a strong point of view, we're not shy. We'll stand up, speak out - even when our voice shakes.
- Tim Cook
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Gerhard Herzberg
The citation for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry reads, 'for contribution to the knowledge of electronic structures and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals,' and therefore implies that the Prize has been awarded for a long series of studies extending practically over my whole scientific life.
- Gerhard Herzberg
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Steve Vai
I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.
- Steve Vai
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Wendell Phillips
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
- Wendell Phillips
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Freda Adler
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
- Freda Adler
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Phillips Brooks
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
- Phillips Brooks
Collection: Knowledge
Image of T. B. Joshua
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
- T. B. Joshua
Collection: Knowledge
Image of John Polkinghorne
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
- John Polkinghorne
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Collection: Knowledge
Image of James Fenimore Cooper
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Collection: Knowledge