The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
If we don’t empower ourselves with knowledge, then we’re gonna be led down a garden path.
Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Hubble isn’t just a satellite; it’s about humanity’s quest for knowledge.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.
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; the knowledge comes out – just listen.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It’s giving people new expectations. It’s allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you’ll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don’t have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of 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.
MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Pain is the root of knowledge.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says ‘He may be difficult, so let’s avoid him.’
At death, you’re going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world… it’s what’s inside that counts.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
There’s a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.
Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
The most powerful love songs always turn on the discrepancy between the act of declaring love and the knowledge that the ostensible addressee is no longer there, was never there, and could never be there.
If you know your life chances are greatly reduced, should you be in a position to take out life insurance if that knowledge is not available to the insurers?
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
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.
When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what’s important.
The earliest maps were ‘story’ maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.
The greatest gift is a 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.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
