1,014 Quotes Regarding Knowledge


Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge

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

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

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

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

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

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

The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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