Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Rusty Berkus

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

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)

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

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 of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.

Immanuel Kant

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Steve Droke

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Phillip Chesterfield

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

Thomas H. Huxley

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

T. S. Eliot

Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Myron Tribus

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Mark Rutherford

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas H. Huxley

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.

Johann von Goethe

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

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain

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

Mary B. Yates

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

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

William Shakespeare

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