knowledge (ˈnɒlɪdʒ
)
Definitions
noun
- the facts, feelings or experiences known by a person or group of people
- the state of knowing
- awareness, consciousness, or familiarity gained by experience or learning
- erudition or informed learning
- specific information about a subject
- sexual intercourse (obsolete except in the legal phrase carnal knowledge)
- See come to one's knowledge
- See to my knowledge
- See grow out of one's knowledge
Quotations
"Knowledge is power"
"Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on reading, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative, and made their thoughts weak"
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person"
"All I know is that I know nothing"
"That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge"
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience"
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"
"Knowledge is not knowledge until someone else knows that one knows"
"He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow"
Bible: Ecclesiastes"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it"
"Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth"
Bible: I Corinthians"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen"
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
"Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things"
"Knowledge in the end is based on acknowledgement"
"There are known knowns - there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things we do not know we don't know"
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing"
"An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper"
Translations
- British English:
knowledge
Knowledge is information and understanding about a subject, which someone has in their mind.He says he had no knowledge of the payments.ˈnɒlɪdʒ NOUN He says he had no knowledge of the payments.
- Spanish:
conocimiento
nm
- French:
connaissances
nf_pl
- German:
Wissen
nnt
- Chinese: 知识 n
- Arabic: مَعْرِفَةٌ n
- Portuguese: conhecimento nm
- Russian: знание nnt
- Croatian: znanje nnt
- Czech: vědomí nnt
- Danish: viden nutr
- Dutch: kennis nf
- Finnish: tieto n
- Greek: γνώση nf
- Italian: conoscenza nf
- Japanese: 知識 n
- Korean: 지식 n
- Norwegian: kunnskap nm
- Polish: wiedza nf
- Brazilian Portuguese: conhecimento nm
- European Spanish:
conocimiento
nm
- Swedish: kunskap nutr
- Thai: ความรู้ n
- Turkish: bilgi n
- Vietnamese: sự hiểu biết n
Usage examples
His heart sank at the construction Dalziel was likely to have put on Angie's knowledge of his name.
, CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD (2001)This knowledge enabled him to produce beautiful art, which was amazingly true to nature.
Country Life (2004)Professional politicians, until recently, did have an almost unique knowledge of how the system worked.
Irish Times (2002)Both men said that the vehicle did not belong to them and denied all knowledge of the drugs.
Glasgow Herald (2001)This, of course, annoyed Ekarlarwan, who did not like the idea that his secrets had become `common knowledge '.
, ABORIGINE DREAMING: Introduction to the Wisdom and Thought of the Aboriginal Traditions of Australia (2002)