1,014 Quotes Regarding Knowledge


The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
Pat Robertson

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh

The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Sophocles

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke