Knowledge Quotes

James madison - a popular government without popular information...
Clark coleman - the two most evangelical groups in the world are...
Erykah badu, a line from the song
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
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
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spence
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
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
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylo
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Matthew Henry
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates, Law
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.
Charles Dickens
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
Music - - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
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
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Ovid
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.
William Bake
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
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fulle
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
Joseph Priestly
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 a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson