Knowledge Quotes

Enrico fermi - it is no good to try to stop knowledge from going...
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas H. Huxley
Alexis carrel - science has to be understood in its broadest...
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand Russell
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteu
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to 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 which knowledge gives.
James Madison
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashely Montagu
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.
Samuel Johnson
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
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.
Anne Besant
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil Gibran
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spence
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
Alvin Toffle
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups.
Clark Coleman
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry Louis Mencken
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juste
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
Johann von Goethe
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
Johnson
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
Thomas H. Huxley
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Edwin P. Whipple
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.
Ivon Petrovich Pavlov