1,014 Quotes Regarding Knowledge


Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J. Watson

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Doug Coupland

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler

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

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Moses Hadas

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
Walter Mosley

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.
Charles Stanley

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer