Knowledge Quotes :
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
Ben Carson
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Malcolm X
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.
George Washington Carver
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
Cesar Chavez
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
Knowledge of God’s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole
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 Pasteur
In the workplace, we’re taught to worry about what happens if we don’t have full, complete knowledge of every detail. But if you create a culture and an environment that rewards people for taking risks, even if they don’t succeed, you can start changing behavior.
Reshma Saujani
I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one’s own thoughts and going beyond what is given.
Maryanne Wolf
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
Maryanne Wolf
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
Ernest Holmes
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Alban Berg
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Louis Aragon
Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.
Peter Lombard
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya Angelou
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Confucius
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.’
Benjamin Franklin
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
Jean Piaget
I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos Castaneda
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David Bohm
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William Inge
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa Szymborska
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Avicenna
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
Prem Rawat
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
George Gurdjieff
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
Dolley Madison
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Richard Cecil
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
Vanna Bonta
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Staughton Lynd
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Gene Wolfe
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
Meister Eckhart
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Arthur C. Clarke
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Arnold H. Glasow
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
Abu Bakr
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Herodotus
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Herodotus
I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
Jay-Z
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
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil