Knowledge Quotes
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.George F. Will
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.Friedrich Nietzsche
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Arthur Baldwin
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
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
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.Jeremy Taylo
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.Juvenal
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.Gen. Peyton C. March
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.Phillip Chesterfield
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.John Milton
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)
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
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.Denis Diderot
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.Vince Lombardi
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.Sid Taylo
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.Erastus Flavel Beadle
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.Norman Juste
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.Friedrich Nietzsche
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.Robert Anthony
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.Frank Herbert
