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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on knowledge

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on knowledge

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker on knowledge

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings on knowledge

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy on knowledge

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson on knowledge

The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake on knowledge

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn on knowledge

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke on knowledge

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer on knowledge

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Herodotus on knowledge

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori on knowledge

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson on knowledge

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Staughton Lynd on knowledge

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch on knowledge

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

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

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

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 on knowledge

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