Knowledge Quotes

God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.

Arabic Prove

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Saadi

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

Albert Schweitze

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

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

Albert Einstein

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

John Maurice Clark

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

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

How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Shelley, incomplete, poets

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

Hippocrates, Law

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

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.

Gene Wolfe

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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

T. S. Eliot

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

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, The Confucian Analects

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

George Gurdjieff

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

Albert Einstein

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