Knowledge Quotes

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
– Lord Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
– Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
– Emile M. Cioran
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
– Emile M. Cioran
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
– Bill Clinton
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face 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
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
– William Cowper
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
– Sandra Carey
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
– Aime Cesaire
Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.
– Judy Chicago
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
– G. Norman Collie
The bottom line is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And I have to believe from past experience and knowledge that some of the links in Homeland Security are weak. Part of the story in Lost Light is about a weak link in the chain.
– Michael Connelly
Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fill and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.
– Benedetto Croce
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
– Howard Crosby
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 J. Cudworth
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
– Ralph J. Cudworth
Ain't no matter which way that the election goes, you should always be prepared. You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.
– Chuck D.
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
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
Mathematical knowledge may, just like our scientific knowledge, be deep and broad, it may be subtle and wonderfully explanatory, it may be uncontroversially accepted; but it cannot be certain.
– David Deutsch
We know what's going on behind the curtain, and we can't wish that knowledge away, however much we would like to. We have to face it and we have to do what's right. And that means passing this bill to ban this barbaric, inhuman, unconscionable practice [abortion].
– Mike DeWine
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.
– Princess Diana
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
– Philip K. Dick
Minerva House... was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
– Charles Dickens
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
– Annie Dillard
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
– Elizabeth Drew
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
– Peter F. Drucker
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
– Peter F. Drucker
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
– Peter F. Drucker
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
– William Davenant
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
– Vine Deloria, Jr.
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
– John Denham
Play is the beginning of knowledge.
– George Dorsey
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
– Steve Droke
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
– William Dunbar
I believe that when somebody crosses over they are aware and have total knowledge of the experience, situation and people involved.
– John Edward
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
– Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
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
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
– Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
– Albert Einstein
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
– 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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
– T. S. Eliot
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
– Douglas Engelbart
God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.
– Stephen Evans
There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.
– Brooke Medicine Eagle
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
– Ilya Ehrenburg
There is wisdom in truth but not always happiness in knowledge.
– John Ellis
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
– James Farmer
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
– Marilyn Ferguson
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
– Henry Ford
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
– Michel Foucault
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
– Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
– Benjamin Franklin
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
– Milton Friedman
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
– Robert Fulghum
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
– Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
There should be truth in thought, truth in speech, and truth in action. To the man who has realised this truth in perfection, nothing else remains to be known because all knowledge is necessarily included in it.
– Mahatma Gandhi
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
– Mahatma Gandhi
We are merely the instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
– Kahlil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
– Kahlil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
– Kahlil Gibran
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 Gildersleeve
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
– Bede Griffiths
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
– Herbie Hancock
Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
– Learned Hand
Cowell gave me an enormous amount of 'how to' knowledge, including how to write a serial piece before I went to Schoenberg. Also an immense stimulation about world music. He was an absolutely fascinating man, because of his knowledge not only of world music but also of how to do different things.
– Lou Harrison
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
– Lou Harrison
I believe education is the great equalizer. Our children are our hope for the future, so we have an obligation to provide them with the tools to succeed. There is no more powerful tool than knowledge.
– Dave Heineman
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
– Jimi Hendrix
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
– Arthur Hertzberg
Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
– Thomas Hobbes
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
– Thomas Hobbes
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
– Eric Hoffer
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
– John Holt
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.
– Sam Houston
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
– Kin Hubbard
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.
– Dean Hawkes
There is no greater reward in our profession than the knowledge that God has entrusted us with the physical care of his people.
– Elmer Hess
Where an intelligent grasp of principles requires a knowledge of mathematics, its fundamental ideas should be presented in such a way that students carry away the sense of mathematics not only as a tool for the solution of problems but as a study of types of order, system, and language.
– Sidney Hook
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
– Sidney Hook
I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall. I am merely pointing out that they can, and are, used to promote the New World Order, mostly (though certainly not in every case), without their knowledge.
– David Icke
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.
– Edith Johnson
O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
– John Keats
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
– Helen Keller
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
– Jackie Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
– John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
– John F. Kennedy
He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.
– Walter Kerr
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value is creativity.
– John Kao
Actually, my artistic knowledge is so tiny it could fit into the brain of an art critic.
– Michael Kilian