Knowledge Quotes

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

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

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Hubble isn't just a satellite; it's about humanity's quest for knowledge.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

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.

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.

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.