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.

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. the only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Knowledge is power.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Science is organized knowledge.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

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.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Information is not knowledge.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.

Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.