The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term ‘doubting Thomas’ well illustrates the difference.
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
The key to coaching is love. It’s not knowledge; it’s not discipline. If you love ‘em, you can discipline them. If you love ’em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.
Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
It should be common knowledge that women and men can talk about sports.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
