Knowledge Quotes

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.
Mary B. Yates
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
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey, Principle - Centered Leadership
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
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
Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Gen. Peyton C. March
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Prove
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
The Hitopadesa
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
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
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
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
Kahlil Gibran
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
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
No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.
West African Saying
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sidney Madwed
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
Thomas H. Huxley
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
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
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D Eisenhowe