Quotes about Knowledge
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
- Elbert Hubbard
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
- George Eliot
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
- George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
- Peter Drucker
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- Samuel Johnson
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
- Stephen Covey
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
- Euripides
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
- Ayn Rand