Knowledge Quotes

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

The Hitopadesa

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Kelle

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

Knowledge is true opinion.

Plato

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say.

Barbara McClintock

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2

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

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

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

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.

Arlene Raven

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.

Mary B. Yates

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

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

Amy Grant

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

Saadi

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

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)

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

Albert Einstein

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

Marilyn vos Savant

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.

Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw

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

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot