Knowledge Quotes

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry Louis Mencken
Author unknown - he that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his...
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
Marilyn vos savant - to acquire knowledge, one must study; but to...
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
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
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
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
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 35 Bible
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
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...
Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.
James A. Perkins
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.
Benjamin Franklin
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
Thomas Arnold
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
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
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Matthew Henry
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
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Author Unknown
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
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
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de Beauvoi
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
Michael Sherme
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann von Goethe
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
Thomas H. Huxley