Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John LockeLost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel SmilesGood nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher A 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 HepburnAnd the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
PetrarchWithout my knowledge or consent The Edge - made up of out-takes - was released. Even today, it remains a bitter memory.
Shelley BermanWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenOf all the stages in a woman's life, none is so dangerous as the period between her acknowledgement of a passion for a man, and the day set apart for her nuptials.
Hugh KellyKnowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
Thomas SzaszI would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to leapt upon by half a dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mate would be inducement not to score a goal.
Arthur MarshallKnowledge is power if you know it about the right person.
Ethel MumfordIn much knowledge there is also much grief.
Queen Marie Of RomaniaThere are many rules of thumb and laws out there of which we still have no knowledge, and as such they are in a real way hidden from us.
Umberto GiordanoForeknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Raymond AronAll wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it
JuvenalThere is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Walter LippmannMusic is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban BergKnowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi HendrixMost people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world [talking about deficits that is]
David HartmanZeal will do more than knowledge.
William HazlittThere is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
Alfred North WhiteheadKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John LockeThe utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonNo one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North WhiteheadBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonIt 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 BeauvoirEvil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone WeilWe are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry L MenckenHe is a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He is a man who serves the Lord.
We remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome. His words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join with our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continuous strength and wisdom. [on Pope Benedict XVI]
George BushIt is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Imannuel KantThe only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James MadisonThe animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James ThurberThe ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia GildersleeveWe 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 CharlesHis 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. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J K RowlingAcknowledgement, and celebration, of mystery probably constitutes the most consistent theme of my poetry.
Denise LevertovA man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos CastanedaThe past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen AmbroseA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F DruckerFrom 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 HabermasI 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 EddingtonSir Ian Blair has made no acknowledgement of any structural deficiencies whatever on his watch.
Melanie PhillipsAnd I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable BedeThere 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 PostAs we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha NormanIs knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?
Woody AllenOur knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James Gibson
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