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#knowledge

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #knowledge




We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.


J. J. Abrams


#almost #entitlement #instant #knowledge #live

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.


Felix Adler


#efforts #information #knowledge #law #legal

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.


John Acton


#burden #emancipation #knowledge #obstacle #past

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.


Lord Acton


#deposited #eminently #experience #future #goes

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.


Thomas Aquinas


#believing #evidence #full #knowledge #led

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.


Thomas Aquinas


#cause #creatures #god #his #knowledge

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.


Raymond Aron


#foreknowledge #future #makes #manipulate #possible

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.


Avicenna


#accompanying #acquired #beginnings #causes #completed

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.


Francis Bacon


#end #great #knowledge #life

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.


Francis Bacon


#human power #knowledge #power #synonymous






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