Knowledge Quotes

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

John McCarthy

Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark.

Judith Miller

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

James Northcote

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

John Naisbitt

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

Jamie Oliver

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

John Boyd Orr

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

John Boyd Orr

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no acti...

John Olver

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Jane Porter

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Jean Piaget

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Jean Piaget

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean Piaget

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Jean Piaget

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Jean Piaget

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

John Charles Polanyi

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

James Rouse

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

Jane Roberts

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau