Knowledge Quotes

Bertrand russell, autobiography - three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,...
Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray - knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty...
Samuel smiles - lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost...
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca
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
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
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
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
George Will
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
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
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann von Goethe
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
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 Hammarskjld
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
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
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 not to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Prove
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.
Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna
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
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fulle
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Erastus Flavel Beadle