Knowledge quotes

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.” Wayne Dyer

“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.” Wayne Dyer

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” Rene Descartes

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.” Rene Descartes

“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” Rene Descartes

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” Princess Diana

“Only do what your heart tells you.” Princess Diana

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” Charles Darwin

“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.” Charles Darwin

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” Bertrand Russell

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Bertrand Russell

“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.” Bertrand Russell

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” Bertrand Russell

“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.” Bertrand Russell

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” William Blake

“Knowledge is power.” Francis Bacon

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.” Francis Bacon

“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.” Francis Bacon

“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.” Francis Bacon

“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” Francis Bacon

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” Carl Sagan

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.” Charles Stanley

“Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.” Charles Stanley

“Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.” Michael Jordan

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.” Vincent Van Gogh

“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.” Vincent Van Gogh

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift

“As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.” Donald Trump