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

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 on knowledge

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 on knowledge

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

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

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

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

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 on knowledge

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

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 on knowledge

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 on knowledge

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 on knowledge

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 on knowledge

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

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 on knowledge

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

Knowledge is the life of the mind.
Abu Bakr on knowledge

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant on knowledge

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer on knowledge

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades on knowledge