Knowledge Quotes

Doubt grows with knowledge.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

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.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

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

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.