Knowledge Quotes
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
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.John Kenneth Galbraith
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
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
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
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.Margaret Fulle
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Prove
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.Christine Lane
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
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
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.Samuel Johnson
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.Kahlil Gibran
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.Vine Deloria
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.T. S. Eliot
How we treasure and admire the people who acknowledge us.Julie Morgenstern
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Imagination is more important than 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
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.Author Unknown
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.August Hare
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
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 essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.Maria Mitchell
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
