Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganMusic is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban BergSocrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
G M TrevelyanSometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.
John HartfordA quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey HepburnScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganAs we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert SpencerThe most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre MauroisHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonOur knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James GibsonA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Imannuel KantKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin TofflerKnowledge is going to make you stronger.
Avery BrooksAll men by nature desire knowledge.
AristotleAbility in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light
ZoroasterI would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
PlutarchKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George EliotEvil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone WeilThe mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
Martin TupperIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
'Pride and Prejudice'
Jane AustenThe beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank HerbertAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing
Maurice MaeterlinckIn complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet JacksonWhere all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John LockeThe person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil GibranIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone De BeauvoirPleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
De Witt ClintonWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenMadam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
Richard SheridanThe only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordIt is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Imannuel KantLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John AdamsIgnorance 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 DarwinWe acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed [wedding vows]
Prince CharlesFrom the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
Jurgen HabermasKnowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh BillingsParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster FullerThere is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing
Laurens Van Der PostNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra CareyFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceDiffused knowledge immortalises itself.
Sir James MackintoshIt is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel ProustI am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl BuckIn expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry MillerI ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Sir Arthur EddingtonHe's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin. [On Stephen Fry]
Michael ParkinsonWhen it [knowledge[ enters electronic space, it seems equally natural to surrender it.
Doug BrentYou are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjold
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