Knowledge Quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Benjamin disraeli - a man can know nothing of mankind without knowing...
J. k. rowling, harry potter and the order of the phoenix - his priority did not seem to be to teach them...
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
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
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
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann von Goethe
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
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juste
The ideal engineer is a composite... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.
N. W. Dougherty, 1955
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates, Law
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.
Immanuel Kant
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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 no to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle, Metaphysics
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
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
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Saint Augustine
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
Play is the beginning of knowledge.
George Dorsey
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence