Knowledge Quotes

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Amy Grant

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spence

I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Cicero

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

G. M. Trevelyan

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Heraclitus

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

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

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

French Prove

I have taken all knowledge to by my province.

Sir Francis Bacon

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Native American

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vincent Lombardi

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fulle

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Shelley, incomplete, poets

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

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

Frank Herbert

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

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

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

Albert Einstein

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

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

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

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Audre Lorde

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

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

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

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic

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

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

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

Ovid

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

Phillip Earl Stanhope

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

Enrico Fermi