Knowledge Quotes

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

T. S. Eliot

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Norman Juste

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Ashely Montagu

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Prove

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjld

Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Myron Tribus

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

Knowledge is expensive.

Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjold

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle, Metaphysics

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayna

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

Unknown

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

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

Johann von Goethe

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Amy Grant

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

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

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Maria Mitchell

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword