Top Knowledge Quotes

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional...

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

Knowledge Definition

(v. i.) The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

(v. i.) That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(v. i.) That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.

(v. i.) That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.

(v. i.) Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

(v. i.) Sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge.

(v. t.) To acknowledge.

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intellig...

We didn't do anything illegal, All we ever did was be black.. #BlackLivesMatter

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion...

Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness ex...

I've said this before, but people love you for so many reasons. Some love you only for what you do for them. Some love you for how much money you spend. Some love you for your possessions. By now, we...

Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flau...

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because...