Knowledge Quotes

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

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

Robert Quillen

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.

Ken Keyes

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Jeremy Taylo

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

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

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

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

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

Thomas H. Huxley

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Kahlil Gibran

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups.

Clark Coleman

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

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

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

Socrates

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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 would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Author Unknown

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

George Dorsey

Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle, Metaphysics

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

Unknown

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

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge