Famous Quotes About knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Knowledge is never too dear.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.