Knowledge Quotes

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

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Audre Lorde

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Matthew Henry

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

Sophocles

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteu

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

T. S. Eliot, The Rock

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

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

Robert Anthony

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Erastus Flavel Beadle

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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

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

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Cicero

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845

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

Albert Einstein

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

T. S. Eliot

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

French Prove

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

Albert Einstein

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoi

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law