1,014 Quotes Regarding Knowledge


Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato

Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford

Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Chanakya

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot