Knowledge Quotes

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Helen Hayes

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whatley

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.

Author Unknown

The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups.

Clark Coleman

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

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Confucius

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

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)

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

Norman Juste

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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

Sophocles

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

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

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)

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

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

T. S. Eliot, The Rock

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

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.

Johann von Goethe

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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 no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

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

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.

US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.

The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.

James A. Perkins

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

Hippocrates, Law

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Laertius Diogenes

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

George Dorsey

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

Robert Anthony

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