Knowledge Quotes

Oliver wendell holmes - it is the province of knowledge to speak and it...
Dante alighieri - consider your origin you were not born to live...
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.
US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
Phillip Earl Stanhope
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Shelley, incomplete, poets
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.
Lewis Mumford
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
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylo
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
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 larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.
Mary B. Yates
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
Thomas H. Huxley
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
Ludwig Boerne
I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Cicero
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashely Montagu
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
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison