Knowledge Quotes

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

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

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

Albert Schweitze

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

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

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

George Gurdjieff

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Cicero

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Knowledge without know - How is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Myron Tribus

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

George Dorsey

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Norman Juste

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

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

Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Arthur Baldwin

Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Lord Tennyson

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Heraclitus