Knowledge Quotes

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Rory Stewart

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; ...

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Russell Simmons

Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions.

Russell Smith

I took several trips to New Orleans and met with people who had intimate knowledge of the underbelly of the city in the 1950s. The meetings were both fascinating and terrifying.

Ruta Sepetys

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Raoul Vaneigem

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Scott Adams

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Samuel Butler

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that...

Steve Berry

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Stokely Carmichael

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Sergei Eisenstein

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Stanley Fish

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

Sigmar Gabriel

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Sam Harris

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Samuel Horsley

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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

Sydney J. Harris

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it...

Stefan Hell

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson