Knowledge Quotes

"The Essentials of a Good Fly-Hook: The temper of an angel and penetration of a prophet; fine enough to be invisible and strong enough to kill a bull in a ten-acre field."

- G.S. Marryat

"Knowledge is power."

- Francis Bacon

"The more understanding you have about Karate, the less you need to change or modify it."

- Tsuguo Sakumoto

"A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them."

- Shigeru Egami

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."

- Aristotle

"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."

- J. Paul Getty

"I don’t study to know more, but to ignore less."

- Juana Inés de la Cruz

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

- Plato

"That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together."

- Jordan Peterson

"The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode."

- Paul Allen

"Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together."

- Sean M. Carroll

"Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark."

- Stefan Zweig

"If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."

- Robert M. Pirsig

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

- Edsger Dijkstra

"The most important thing is to never stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

- David Hare

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."

- James Madison

"Some people remain deprived of knowledge due to their poor ability to remain silent."

- Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (RA)

"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."

- Richard P. Feynman

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows."

- Matt Drudge

"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."

- Ada Lovelace

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it."

- Albert Einstein

"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."

- Charles Darwin

"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."

- Theodore Bikel

"Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding."

- William Paul Thurston

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world."

- Louis Pasteur

"Whoever acts upon what he knows, Allah will grant him knowledge of what he does not know."