1,014 Quotes Regarding Knowledge


I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran

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

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.
Khalil Gibran

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu