Knowledge Quotes
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
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
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.Unknown
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
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
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.Shelley, incomplete, poets
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.T. S. Eliot
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
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
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.Samuel Johnson
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.Friedrich Nietzsche
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein
Activity is the only road to knowledge.George Bernard Shaw
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
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 Elde
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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)
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.Saadi
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.Samuel Johnson
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
