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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.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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.
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.
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.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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.
Knowledge is true opinion.
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.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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.
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.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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.
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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.
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
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.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
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.
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
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.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Knowledge is power.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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