Knowledge Quotes

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
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fulle
Henry louis mencken - we are here and it is now. further than that, all...
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Plato - bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to...
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
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
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Author Unknown
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
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
George Bernard Shaw
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 price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Arthur Baldwin
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
George Will
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
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle, Metaphysics
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Sid Taylo
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.
Native American
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Author Unknown
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - This is knowledge.
Confucius
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin