Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.

Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

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

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Hippocrates, Law

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Josh Billings

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Sir Arthur Eddington

It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.

Christine Lane

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Kelle

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

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

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

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Mark Rutherford

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

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

Mark Twain

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Gen. Peyton C. March

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whatley

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

T. S. Eliot, The Rock

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

Robert Quillen

Knowledge is expensive.

Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago

I have taken all knowledge to by my province.

Sir Francis Bacon

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Matthew Henry

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

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

Albert Einstein

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

French Prove

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

John Calvin

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