Knowledge Quotes

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.

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)