Quotes about Knowledge
Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
— Thomas a Kempis
What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.
— Ezra Taft Benson
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.
— Christoph Waltz
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
— George Washington
If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
— George Washington
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain, American author and humorist
— George Washington
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
— Albert Bandura
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
— Carl Sagan
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
— Maya Angelou
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
— Max Born