Knowledge Quotes

Plato - knowledge is true opinion....
Confucius - when you know a thing, to hold that you know it...
Carl jung - knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon...
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
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
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
Myron Tribus
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juste
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Masterlinck
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vincent Lombardi
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann von Goethe
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
Walt Whitman
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Tyron Edwards
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Erastus Flavel Beadle
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
John Calvin
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
Johnson
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
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sidney Madwed
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.
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
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
Rabbi David Wolpe
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
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
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli