Knowledge Quotes
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own. (Quote by - William Penn)
Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The last thing one knows is what to put first. (Quote by - Pascal)
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. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena. (Quote by - James D. Regan)
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. (Quote by - Thales)
Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living. (Quote by - W. C. Bennett)
Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom. (Quote by - Mark B. Cohen)
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. (Quote by - Bible)
If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better. (Quote by - Jay Weisman)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (Quote by - James Thurber)
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.(Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials? (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, Is but to know my ignorance at last, Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools. (Quote by - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling)
If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect.. (Quote by - Dhammapada)
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know. (Quote by - Hamlet)
But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. (Quote by - Bible)
If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (Quote by - Charles C. Abbott)
There's lots of people--this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them. (Quote by - Will Carleton)
From the time we first begin to know, We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. (Quote by - Pomfret)
The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. (Quote by - Cecil)
The tree of knowledge is not that of life. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Knowledge without religion will no more sanctify than painted fire will burn, or the sight of water cleanse. (Quote by - John A. O'Brien)
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. (Quote by - Sterne)
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work. (Quote by - St. Francis of Assisi)
In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. (Quote by - Sir Walter Raleigh)
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. (Quote by - Seneca)
It is far easier to know men than to know man. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? (Quote by - Pope Julius III)
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I don't know very much, but what I do know, I know better than anybody else and I don't want to argue about it... A mind is not a bed to be made and re-made. (Quote by - James Agate)
Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at. (Quote by - Solomon Short)
Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All I know is what I read in the papers. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Knowledge is power. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. (Quote by - Nicholas Murray Butler)
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Information is not knowledge. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. (Quote by - Colton)
Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. (Quote by - Lord Henry Peter Brougham)
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant. (Quote by - Colton)
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does. (Quote by - Haliburton)
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (Quote by - William James)
The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, Know Thyself might have added, Don't Tell Anyone! (Quote by - H. F. Henrichs)
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
I do not believe...I know. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
You know more than you think you do. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. (Quote by - Bible)
He knew whats'ever 's to be known, But much more than he knew would own. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I know too much to be conservative or liberal. (Quote by - Bible)
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. (Quote by - Olin Miller)
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. (Quote by - Bergen Evans)
Wisdom and knowledge decrease in inverse proportion to age. (Quote by - William J. Lynott)
For knowledge, too, is itself a power. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. (Quote by - Bible)
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. (Quote by - John A. Wheeler)
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is profoundly ignorant. (Quote by - Shaftesbury)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. (Quote by - Rev. Jesse Jackson)
Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, hi is wise--follow him! (Quote by - Lady Burton)
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. (Quote by - Bacon)
Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
I am not young enough to know everything. (Quote by - Sir J.M. Barrie)
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything. (Quote by - Edgar R. Fiedler)
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
Women...are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. (Quote by - James Stephens)
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. (Quote by - Buddha)
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount first principles, and to take nobody's word about them. (Quote by - Bolingbroke)
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. (Quote by - T. H. Huxley)
Deep sighted in intelligence, Ideas, atoms, influences. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
