The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Knowledge is not just power – it is control.
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
Politics does the equivalent of constantly trying to reinvent children’s arithmetic and botching it. It does not build reliable foundations of knowledge.
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it’s almost a non-event when it happens.
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word ‘prevail.’ Prevail!
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
The most powerful tools you can have are information and knowledge.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I’m making up for that.
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
I want to share knowledge about things I’ve learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
