Quotes for Knowledge

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

John Dalberg-Acton

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.

Michel Foucault

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Sydney J. Harris

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Horace Mann

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

Prophet Muhammad

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Sam Houston

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

John C. Maxwell

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Kofi Annan

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Max Weber

If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic... But books are a source of knowledge, I have great thirst for knowledge.

Sudha Murty

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Brian Eno

I never had a traditional mentor. I know people who have been successful with a mentor, but I've never understood why I should limit myself to the knowledge and expertise of one person.

Adam Neumann

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Max Weber

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

In the life of our organism, we are continually dealing with a development of force followed by a state of equilibrium. Of course, the human being has no conscious knowledge of what is really going on within him, but what takes place is so infinitely wise that the cleverness of the human ego is nothing by comparison.

Rudolf Steiner

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

Daisaku Ikeda