Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 3

Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 3 provides more knowledge quotes.

Image of C. V. Raman
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
- C. V. Raman
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Tom Clancy
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
- Tom Clancy
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Anne Sullivan
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
- Anne Sullivan
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Vera Rubin
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
- Vera Rubin
Collection: Knowledge
Image of John Sergeant Wise
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
- John Sergeant Wise
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Will Durant
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
- Will Durant
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Image of Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Collection: Knowledge
Image of John Paul Jones
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
- John Paul Jones
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Joseph Story
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.
- Joseph Story
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Jeremy Bentham
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
- Jeremy Bentham
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Francis Bacon
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Wayne LaPierre
People that support more gun laws tend to have the least knowledge of the laws that are already on the books.
- Wayne LaPierre
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Rich Piana
The problem I see with most contests is that the people judging have never competed in a bodybuilding contest. I feel that to have the knowledge necessary to judge a bodybuilding competition, you must have walked in those shoes.
- Rich Piana
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Steve Harvey
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
- Steve Harvey
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Lucy Stone
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
- Lucy Stone
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Image of Glennon Doyle Melton
A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form, safe in the traditional meaning of the word. Because living safely means dying without too many regrets. That is safe.
- Glennon Doyle Melton
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Harry Browne
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
- Harry Browne
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Peter Drucker
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
- Peter Drucker
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Ramana Maharshi
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
- Ramana Maharshi
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Image of Shakira
I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.
- Shakira
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Sonia Sotomayor
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Ethel Watts Mumford
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
- Ethel Watts Mumford
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Image of George Gurdjieff
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
- George Gurdjieff
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Image of Toussaint Louverture
General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
- Toussaint Louverture
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Image of Blaise Pascal
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Lao Tzu
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Robert Staughton Lynd
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
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Image of Albrecht Durer
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
- Albrecht Durer
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Khalil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Khalil Gibran
Collection: Knowledge
Image of John Holt
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
- John Holt
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Jean Piaget
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
- Jean Piaget
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Mira Nair
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
- Mira Nair
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Avicenna
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
- Avicenna
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Image of Lisa Randall
Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.
- Lisa Randall
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Carlos Castaneda
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
- Carlos Castaneda
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Image of Devdutt Pattanaik
Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.
- Devdutt Pattanaik
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Image of Sylvester Stallone
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
- Sylvester Stallone
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Strom Thurmond
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
- Strom Thurmond
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Ayesha Takia
My husband Farhan Azmi is a restaurateur and owns three restaurants in Mumbai. After we got married, we started planning a cafe, Chai Cofi, and got busy in executing it. It is not easy to open a restaurant. I always wanted to get into the business of restaurants and was fortunate enough that Farhan's knowledge taught me a lot of things.
- Ayesha Takia
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
- Louis Pasteur
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Image of Van Wyck Brooks
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
- Van Wyck Brooks
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Charles Spurgeon
There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
- Charles Spurgeon
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Pope Benedict XVI
I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which we seek to attain a true knowledge, but, in fact, they are only imaginations whereby we seek to draw near to the reality.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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Image of Julian Treasure
For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.
- Julian Treasure
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Robert Baden-Powell
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
- Robert Baden-Powell
Collection: Knowledge
Image of George Harrison
At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts.
- George Harrison
Collection: Knowledge