Knowledge Quotes

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.