Knowledge Quotes

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

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fulle

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.

Mark Twain

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Shelley, incomplete, poets

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert

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

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

George Dorsey

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

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.

Charles Dickens

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

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Steve Droke

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Gene Wolfe

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

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

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spence

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Jeremy Taylo

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Author Unknown

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy