Knowledge Quotes

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
Play is the beginning of knowledge.
George Dorsey
Benjamin disraeli - it is knowledge that influences and equalizes the...
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
Alfred lord tennyson - knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers....
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
Knowledge is power. Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est.
Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H? resibus. (1597)
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
August Hare
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
Albert Schweitze
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
Charles Simmons
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Arthur Baldwin
Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juste
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
Phillip Earl Stanhope
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
Walt Whitman
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
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
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
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.
William Bake
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
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
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
I prefer tongue - Tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Cicero
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylo
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjold