Knowledge Quotes

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria

Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

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

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Plato

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fulle

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Mark Rutherford

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

I have taken all knowledge to by my province.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is expensive.

Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fulle

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

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

William Ralph Inge

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

G. M. Trevelyan

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

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

H. L. Mencken

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

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.

Johnson

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

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

Mark Twain

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.

Pliny the Elde

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert

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