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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

— Karel Capek

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

— Avicenna

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

— Daniel Barenboim

Knowledge is power.

— Francis Bacon

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

— Horace Mann

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

— John Tyndall

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

— Jean Piaget

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik