Famous Quotes & Sayings

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

David Cook

We're not shading. We're not hiding. We're just saying what we know. And to our knowledge, no one was paid by anyone.

Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

We have the knowledge and want to help. As soon as you walk in the door, we'll get to know you.

We don't know for sure that Gov. Blagojevich is Official A. Even if he is Official A, it does not mean that he necessarily had knowledge of what is being alleged.

A. J. Liebling

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

A. A. Milne

"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.

Henry David Thoreau

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

William Shakespeare

All difficulties are easy when they are known.

William Shakespeare

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

Without knowledge a man is no better than an animal.

Herodotus

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Gabrielle Union

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

David Cheriton

There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best.The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work.

David Byrne

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

David Bohm

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

John Stuart Mill

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Frederick the Great

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Derek Jeter

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

George Santayana

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

Georges St-Pierre

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Dante Alighieri

Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

Dante Alighieri

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Clifford Stoll

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.