Knowledge Quotes

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Richard Cecil

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collier

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Robert Delaunay

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Rex Hunt

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

Raymond Kelly

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

Richard King

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experien...

Richard Leakey

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Robert Staughton Lynd

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Ramakrishna

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Ramana Maharshi

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

Richard MacDonald

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Robert Andrews Millikan

It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.

Robert Manning

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Robert Mugabe

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Robin Morgan

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

Rachel Nichols

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.

Richard Simmons