Knowledgeable Quotes (page 9)

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• money
• knowledge
• likely

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

• knowledge
• needing
• needed

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. Mary McLeod Bethune

• alone
• knowledge
• rests

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung

• life
• about life
• knowledge

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. William James

• life
• knowledge
• mind

Knowledge is the life of the mind. Abu Bakr

• powerful
• humanity
• knowledge

Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Francis Bacon

• powerful
• knowledge
• power

Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon

• education
• powerful
• progress

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

• education
• nature
• humanity

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry B. Adams

• knowledge
• death
• words

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The... T. S. Eliot

• intelligent
• dream
• sympathy

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our... Henry David Thoreau

• god
• knowledge
• pride

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state. Blaise Pascal

• knowledge
• wisdom
• nature

To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depths of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about... Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• mystic
• choices
• different

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that... Ayn Rand

• him
• knowledge
• end

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him. Robert Penn Warren