Category: Quotes About Knowledge
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. -Andy Grammer
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. -Samuel Butler
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. -John Boyd Orr
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. -Ali ibn Abi Talib
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. -Doug Coupland
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them. -Rex Hunt
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. -Jesse Ventura
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. -Rebecca West
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public…
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. -Jose Marti
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. -Peter Fonda
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. -John McCarthy
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. -Frederick Soddy
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. -Edwin Louis Cole
For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. -Robert Scheer
I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. -Jennie Garth
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. -James Madison
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. -Matthew Simpson
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