Knowledge Quotes

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.

Arlene Raven

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteu

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

Larry Leissne

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

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

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

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Phillip Chesterfield

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

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

Matthew Henry

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Norman Juste

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

Gene Wolfe

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

The Hitopadesa

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

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Charles Simmons

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 Will

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Cicero

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Shelley, incomplete, poets

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

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

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

Mark Twain

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Madam Guizot