Knowledge Quotes

August hare - thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and...
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
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, The Confucian Analects
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley
A. bartlett giamatti, president of yale university - far better to think historically, to remember the...
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.
Steven Runciman
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates, Law
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Saint Augustine
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
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 knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
John milton - where there is much desire to learn, there of...
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
Ludwig Boerne
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.
Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
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
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.
Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...
Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Ovid
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
G. M. Trevelyan
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.
Carl R. Rogers
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashely Montagu
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
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collie
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