Knowledge quotes

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.” Arthur Conan Doyle

“No enemy is worse than bad advice.” Sophocles

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.” Sophocles

“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.” Franz Kafka

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.” Franz Kafka

“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” William Shakespeare

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.” William Shakespeare

“What's done can't be undone.” William Shakespeare

“What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.” William Shakespeare

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.” Quentin Tarantino

“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Man is a universe within himself.” Bob Marley

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Winston Churchill

“Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.” Winston Churchill

“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.” Winston Churchill

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.” Winston Churchill

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” Winston Churchill

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” Winston Churchill

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” Winston Churchill

“A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.” Hillary Clinton