Knowledge Quotes

Seneca - to see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with...
Myron tribus - knowledge without know - how is sterile. we use...
Frank herbert - the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of...
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.
Gene Wolfe
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Edwin P. Whipple
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
Knowledge is expensive.
Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say.
Barbara McClintock
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann von Goethe
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Ovid
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
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
Johann von Goethe
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
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
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Mark Rutherford
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
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