1,014 Quotes Regarding Knowledge


Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Charles Caleb Colton

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
Charles Stanley

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
James Allen

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen

Research is creating new knowledge.
Neil Armstrong

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Lord Chesterfield

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Franz Kafka

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.
Stokely Carmichael