Quotes with man-knowledge

Quotes 2321 till 2340 of 5049.

• Know than this truth (enough for man to know): I virtue alone is happinea below.

  Source: Essay on Man

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

  ― Lao-Tzu
  Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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• Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  ― William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.

  ― Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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• Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
  

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

  ― Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

  Source: The Fable of the Bees An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools, p. 328

  ― Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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• Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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• Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

  ― Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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• Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

  ― Kahlil Gibran
  Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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• Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• Knowledge has killed the sun, making it a ball of gas, with spots.

  Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

  ― D. H. Lawrence
  English writer (1885 - 1930)
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• Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

  ― Peter F. Drucker
  American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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• Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

  Source: On War (1832)

  ― Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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• Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

  ― Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  ― Edward. E. Cummings
  American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• necessities
• application
• comfortable
• imagination
• possession
• cultivates

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