Knowledge Quotes

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.