Knowledge quotes

Knowledge quotes by Albert Einstein

Also about
Experience, Reality, Nature, Religion, Evolution
The only source of knowledge is experience. Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The more you know the less you need to say. Jim Rohn
(also about
Words)
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot
(also about
Ignorance)

Knowledge quotes by Francois Voltaire

Also about
Wisdom, Philosophy, Ignorance, Absurd, Confidence, Information, Sharing, Wishes
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. We cannot wish for that we know not.

Knowledge quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Also about
Wisdom, Education, Mind
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep. He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge.
The more I see, the less I know for sure. John Lennon
(also about
Experience)
For all we live to know is known. Edgar Allan Poe
(also about
Life)

Knowledge quotes by Aristotle

Also about
Education, Understanding, Teachers
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Knowledge quotes by Sigmund Freud

Also about
Religion, Problems
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.
Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller
If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way. Stephen Hawking
(also about
Understanding, Power, Universe, Control)

Knowledge quotes by Victor Hugo

Also about
Ignorance, Mankind
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. George Gordon Byron
(also about
Sorrow)
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. Albert Camus
To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know. Stephen Covey
(also about
Practice, Learning)

Knowledge quotes by Isaac Asimov

Also about
Delusion, Ignorance, Problems
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
(also about
Wisdom)
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Arthur Conan Doyle
(also about
Ignorance)

Knowledge quotes by Malala Yousafzai

Also about
Education, Terrorism, Islam, Human rights
...I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism. Education is our right, I said. Just as it is our right to sing. Islam has given us this right and says that every girl and boy should go to school. The Quran says we should seek knowledge, study hard and learn the mysteries of our world.
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination. Charles Darwin
(also about
Imagination, Skepticism, Superstitions)
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. Nikola Tesla
(also about
Universe, Brain)
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination. Max Planck
(also about
Science, Experiment)

Knowledge quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

Also about
Art, Practice, Curiosity, Mystery, Understanding, Music
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it. Carlos Castaneda
(also about
Life, Regret)

Knowledge quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Also about
Brain
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Knowledge quotes by Confucius

Also about
Wisdom, Ignorance, Philosophy, Understanding
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. 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.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington
(also about
Science, Happiness, Literature)

Knowledge quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Also about
Interest, Wisdom, Ignorance
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. Robert Duvall
(also about
Inspiration, Ability, Opportunity, Action)

Knowledge quotes by Moliere

Also about
Inspiration, Life
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death. Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis
(also about
Business, Success)
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. Muhammad Ali
(also about
Inspiration, Love, Wealth, Spirit, Richness)

Knowledge quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

Also about
Life, Death, Age, Experience
Our knowledge of life is limited to death. But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. Alan Milne
(also about
Wisdom)
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. David Lynch
(also about
Inspiration, Intellect, Intuition)

Knowledge quotes by Francis Bacon

Also about
Wisdom, Power, People, Christianity, Desire
Knowledge is power. There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
 The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. Robert Burns
(also about
Life, Planning, Absurd, Promise, Certainty)
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. Thomas Paine
(also about
Education, Mind)
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. Alvar Aalto
(also about
Professionalism)
Man knows much more than he understands. Alfred Adler
(also about
Psychology, Intuition, People, Unconscious)
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
 Daniel Bernoulli
(also about
Science, Competence, Mathematics, Professionalism)
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. Bertolt Brecht
(also about
Teachers, Learning)

Knowledge quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Also about
Life, Lifesense, Self-determination, Self-perception, Wisdom
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire
(also about
Soldiers, Respect, Creativity, Poets)
A woman, especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. Jane Austen
(also about
Women, Pretending)

Knowledge quotes by Mary Shelley

Also about
Danger, Learning
How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.

Knowledge quotes by William Blake

Also about
Practice, Experiment, Inspiration, Progress, Theory
The true method of knowledge is experiment. What is now proved was once only imagined.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann
(also about
Simplicity, Learning)
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. Harper Lee
(also about
Intellect, People)
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. John Steinbeck
(also about
Love, Understanding, Psychology, People, Humanism)

Knowledge quotes by William S. Burroughs

Also about
Education, Value, Life, Humour, Reality, Paranoia, Neurosis, Panic
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. William Faulkner
(also about
Memory, Hope, Belief)
Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets. Joseph Conrad
(also about
Wisdom, Life, Experience)
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
(also about
Science, Experience)
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. Christiaan Huygens
(also about
Philosophy, Ability, Certainty)

Knowledge quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Also about
Wisdom, Age, Youth, Experience, Doubt, Madness
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors Maya Angelou
(also about
Education, Intelligence)
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge. Adolf Hitler
(also about
Power, Faith)
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. George Bernard Shaw
(also about
Learning)