Knowledge Quotes

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
Sophocles, trachiniae - knowledge must come through action; you can have...
Marilyn vos savant - to acquire knowledge, one must study but to...
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
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
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
Arlene Raven
The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.
Ted Morgan
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Matthew Henry
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de Beauvoi
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
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
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteu
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
Saadi
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.
Charles Dickens
I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Cicero
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
Unknown
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
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 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
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
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
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke