Knowledge Quotes

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
Linda Sunshine

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams

A library implies an act of faith.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Alfred Hitchcock

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles Barkley

Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles Barkley

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

We think too much and feel too little.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner

Never take counsel of your fears.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Ovid

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud