Knowledge Quotes

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Joseph Priestly

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

Plotinus

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 friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. 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 Hammarskjold

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Erastus Flavel Beadle

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Tyron Edwards

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle, Metaphysics

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

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

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

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

Albert Einstein

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

Bertrand Russell

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Laertius Diogenes

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

George Dorsey

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

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

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

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Matthew Henry

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylo

The ideal engineer is a composite... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

N. W. Dougherty, 1955

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

Voltaire

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups.

Clark Coleman

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

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

August Hare

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword