Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

When you know that there is going to be a disaster, you can position knowledge and people.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

We saw it as a unique opportunity to use our knowledge to make this run smoothly.

Brian Mulroney

to say nothing of the times he taped me on the telephone without my knowledge.

Katherine Anne Porter

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.