Famous Quotes

68 Trending Knowledge & Understanding Quotes

Most popular quotes in Knowledge & Understanding category.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeremy Collier

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

Thomas J. Watson

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

Patanjali

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

Plato

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Thomas Aquinas

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Will Durant

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Charles Kettering

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

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Avery Brooks

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

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

James Madison

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. cummings

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon

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.

Friedrich Schiller

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

T. S. Eliot

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell

Knowledge is true opinion.

Plato

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

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Michel Foucault

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Confucius

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

W. Edwards Deming

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes

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

Confucius

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Immanuel Kant

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl Popper

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

Elizabeth Thornton

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Richard Cecil

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.

Virginia Gildersleeve

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph Cudworth

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

John Ruskin

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

Samuel Johnson

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

James Mark Baldwin

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Sidney Hook

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Arnold Bennett

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

Rudolf Steiner

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Nathaniel Branden

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Louis L'Amour

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

William Cowper

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John Polanyi

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn