Knowledge Quotes
There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Conan Doyle
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.Charles Simmons
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.Proverbs 35 Bible
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
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
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.John Kenneth Galbraith
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.Frank Herbert
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.William Shakespeare
All men by nature desire knowledge.Aristotle, Metaphysics
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
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
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
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.Jeremy Taylo
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.Rusty Berkus
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - This is knowledge.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
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
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
Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.Josh Billings
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
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.Bertrand Russell
An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.Benjamin Franklin
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.Steven Runciman
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.Walter Lippmann
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.Christine Lane
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 not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
