Knowledge Quotes

"Today the causes of suicide are similarly unknown, but evidence from multiple sources suggests that certain types of treatments and interventions can reduce suicidal behaviors better than status quo practices, which often conceptualizes suicide as a symptom or outcome of mental illness. Consistent with this perspective, status quo practices target a patients diagnosed mental illness based on the assumption that reducing these symptoms or eliminating the psychological or behavioral disorder also will reduce or eliminate the risk of suicide."

- Craig J Bryan

"If for example you are diagnosed with depression, then your clinician might prescribe therapy to reduce your depression and or recommend anti-depressant medication. As we have discussed previously though, reducing the symptoms of mental illness does not seem to reduce the probability that someone will make a suicide attempt. Two treatments in particular, dialectical behavior therapy DBT and cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention, CBT-SP, have demonstrated the ability to reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors in multiple studies conducted by multiple research teams. Other treatments that share many of the same characteristics and components as these treatments via attempted suicide."

- Craig J Bryan

"[Suicide rates in 20th century Britain] goes way up when town gas first makes its way into British homes and comes plunging down as the changeover to natural gas begins in the late 1960s. In that 10 year window as town gas was being slowly phased out, thousands of deaths were prevented."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Diabetes is a way of life for us. Don’t try to withhold any information from them or pretend that the diabetes is not there. I think knowledge is power. That should be true for a child with diabetes as much as it is for anyone else."

- Father

"The important thing is to not stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

- John F. Kennedy

"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

- John F. Kennedy

"Neither fire, nor wind, birth, nor death, can erase our good deeds."

- Buddha

"Of all known liquids water is probably the most studied and least understood."

- Felix Franks

"We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do."

- Atul Gawande

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know."

- Harry S. Truman

"I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew."

- Richard P. Feynman

"There's nothing you can know that isn't known."

- John Lennon

"There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known."

- John Lennon

"Knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom."

- Frederick Douglass

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

- John Locke

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."

- Herodotus

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."

- Immanuel Kant

"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

- Dante Alighieri

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."

- John Naisbitt

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

- Henry Ford

"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people."

- Tom Clancy

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

- Will Durant

"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."

- Avicenna

"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."

- Terry Pratchett

"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."

- Denis Diderot

"Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire."

- William Penn

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."

- Pericles

"It is only through reading that we can be freed from the bondage of our ignorance."

"Sapientia potentia est."