Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Saint Augustine

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

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

Kahlil Gibran

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".

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 large fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Margaret Fulle

I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Cicero

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Mark Rutherford

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

Larry Leissne

The ideal engineer is a composite... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

N. W. Dougherty

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

Frank Herbert

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

The Hitopadesa

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

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony

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

Phillip Earl Stanhope

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Lord Tennyson

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylo