1,014 Quotes Regarding Knowledge


Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke

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

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri

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

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Arnold H. Glasow

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi

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

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

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
Thomas More

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.
G. I. Gurdjieff

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann