More quotations tagged with “knowledge”
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
—Plato
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
—Paul Valéry
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
—Willa Cather
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.
—Mother Teresa