knowledge Quotes

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.