Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.

Gene Wolfe

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931

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

Lord Chesterfield

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings

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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spence

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.

Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

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 F. Will

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Conan Doyle