Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Samuel Johnson on knowledge
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. Samuel Butler on knowledge
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Denis Diderot on knowledge
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Immanuel Kant on knowledge
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Huxley on knowledge
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. Moses Hadas on knowledge
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. Horace on knowledge
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more. William Cowper on knowledge
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates on knowledge
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayana on knowledge
When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember. Walter Mosley on knowledge
I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have. Charles Stanley on knowledge
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Michel de Montaigne on knowledge
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. Michel de Montaigne on knowledge
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Thomas Fuller on knowledge
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. Isaac Bashevis Singer on knowledge
Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Henry Miller on knowledge
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. Sun Myung Moon on knowledge
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. Elie Wiesel on knowledge
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. Alexander the Great on knowledge