Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

knowledge

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. 8 wisdom & wit from Matthew Arnold

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. 3 quotes from Sidney Hook

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. 68 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. 2 other quotes from Carlos Castenada

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. 2 thoughts from Carlos Castaneda

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. 3 more quotes from Charles Babbage

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. 23 other quotes from Henry Miller

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. 11 more quotes from Rebecca West

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. 7 more quotes from Samuel Smiles

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. 46 more sayings from George Santayana

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. 46 sayings from George Santayana

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. 7 other thoughts from Samuel Smiles

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. 4 quotes from Louis Pasteur

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. 23 views from Henry Miller

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. 75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. 75 more sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. 3 other views from Lillian Smith

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. 56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. 6 other views from Franz Grillparzer

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. 12 thoughts from Thomas a Kempis

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. 2 views from Charles Morgan

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. 12 more quotes from Thomas a Kempis

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. 13 other wisdom & wit from Dante Alighieri

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. 56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. 67 other views from Francis Bacon

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. 17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. 16 wisdom & wit from Isaac Asimov

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. 40 quotes from William James

Knowledge and human power are synonymous. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. 56 more views from Khalil Gibran

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. 6 sayings from Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. 19 quotes from Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is power. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

Knowledge is the life of the mind. 21 sayings from Abu Bakr

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. 30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. 20 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. 12 other quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. 56 more views from Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. 56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. 41 more thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. 36 other wisdom & wit from Lord Byron

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. 30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. 67 sayings from Francis Bacon

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah. 21 sayings from Abu Bakr

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 16 sayings from Isaac Asimov

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. 8 quotes from Ernest Holmes

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. 20 more sayings from Thomas Aquinas

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. 30 other wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. 21 other sayings from Abu Bakr

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. 25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. 21 more quotes from Abu Bakr

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. 20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. 4 sayings from Abraham Joshua Heschel

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. 2 more thoughts from F. H. Bradley

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. 2 views from Roger Bacon

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge. 2 quotes from Karel Capek

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. 3 sayings from Francis Picabia

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. 3 other wisdom & wit from Ethel Watts Mumford

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. 6 other quotes from Franz Grillparzer

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not? 3 wisdom & wit from Zebulon Pike

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. 25 wisdom & wit from Simone Weil

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. 19 other quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati. 2 quotes from Adam Weishaupt

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. 22 other views from Henry Adams

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. 19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. 19 wisdom & wit from Alfred North Whitehead

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. 2 quotes from Van Wyck Brooks

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. 9 other thoughts from William S. Burroughs

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. 29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. 21 more quotes from Anais Nin

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. 14 sayings from Bertolt Brecht

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. 32 wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. 3 quotes from Nicolaus Copernicus

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. 32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed. 7 more views from Buffalo Bill

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 6 more quotes from Thomas J. Watson

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. 9 more quotes from William S. Burroughs

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. 6 sayings from Ella Maillart

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. 4 quotes from Thomas Malthus

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. 7 thoughts from Jeremy Bentham

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance. 2 other views from Robert Quillen

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. 23 other sayings from Vincent Van Gogh

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. 6 wisdom & wit from Phyllis McGinley

Imagination is more important than knowledge. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge. 105 views from Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. 105 more views from Albert Einstein

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. 27 more thoughts from James Madison

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience. 105 more views from Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. 11 wisdom & wit from Rene Descartes

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. 105 more sayings from Albert Einstein

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. 23 more sayings from Vincent Van Gogh

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. 5 other wisdom & wit from Augustus Hare

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. 105 views from Albert Einstein

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. 2 quotes from Corliss Lamont

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. 2 quotes from Wilhelm Reich

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. 6 more sayings from Luther Burbank

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. 6 more quotes from Luther Burbank

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. 2 thoughts from Ralph Ellison

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. 7 more quotes from Pearl Bailey

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. 3 more views from Thomas Reid

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. 13 quotes from Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. 13 more quotes from Immanuel Kant

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. 11 thoughts from William Ellery Channing

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. 70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. 13 other sayings from Immanuel Kant

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. 12 thoughts from George Herbert

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. 13 other sayings from Immanuel Kant

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. 3 sayings from Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. 11 sayings from William Ellery Channing

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. 9 other wisdom & wit from Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. 42 views from Josh Billings

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. 16 views from David Hume

Science is organized knowledge. 20 quotes from Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. 13 other quotes from Immanuel Kant

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. 8 thoughts from Thomas Hobbes

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. 20 other wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer

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. 38 quotes from William Hazlitt

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. 20 views from Herbert Spencer

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. 27 wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci

Zeal will do more than knowledge. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. 9 more quotes from George Henry Lewes

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. 2 wisdom & wit from Wilbur Wright

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness. 6 quotes from Robert Delaunay

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. 3 sayings from John Millington Synge

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. 11 more wisdom & wit from Horace Mann

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. 33 views from Thomas Huxley

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. 14 quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. 6 thoughts from Mikhail Bakunin

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? 33 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. 9 views from Margaret Fuller

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. 10 views from Novalis

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. 46 other thoughts from John F. Kennedy

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. 26 other views from Sigmund Freud

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. 24 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. 14 quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God. 2 quotes from John Jewel

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. 2 quotes from John Jewel

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. 4 other thoughts from Albrecht Durer

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. 3 quotes from Jane Roberts

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. 5 other wisdom & wit from Dennis Potter

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. 9 views from John Cheever

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. 9 views from John Cheever

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. 5 sayings from Brigham Young

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. 58 more views from Henry Ward Beecher

Knowledge is love and light and vision. 31 thoughts from Helen Keller

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. 10 views from William Ralph Inge

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. 16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. 8 other quotes from Stokely Carmichael

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. 57 more sayings from Blaise Pascal

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. 59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Fine art is knowledge made visible. 2 more thoughts from Gustave Courbet

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. 3 wisdom & wit from Richard Cobden

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. 4 quotes from Matthew Simpson

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. 2 sayings from Irving Howe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. 7 wisdom & wit from Walter Benjamin

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. 18 thoughts from Marcel Proust

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. 115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. 7 more views from John Calvin

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. 19 other quotes from Carl Jung

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. 6 other thoughts from Karl Popper

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. 32 other quotes from Henry Ford

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. 45 more sayings from Aldous Huxley

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. 45 quotes from Aldous Huxley

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. 117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. 31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. 3 wisdom & wit from Mary McLeod Bethune

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. 7 quotes from Claude Bernard

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry. 5 views from Richard King

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. 2 other sayings from Thomas Bulfinch

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. 4 quotes from Jean Piaget

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. 7 sayings from Marcus Garvey

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. 10 more sayings from Maurice Maeterlinck

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. 15 more quotes from John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. 15 views from John Locke

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. 8 other quotes from Jeremy Taylor

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. 5 quotes from Irving Babbitt

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. 15 more wisdom & wit from John Locke

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. 4 more quotes from Jean Piaget

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 15 other thoughts from John Locke

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next. 4 thoughts from Jean Piaget

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. 8 other sayings from Maria Mitchell

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. 5 sayings from Frances Wright

Ignorance is never better than knowledge. 2 more thoughts from Enrico Fermi

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. 90 more wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. 63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one. 13 wisdom & wit from Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. 23 more views from T. S. Eliot

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. 5 quotes from Robert Staughton Lynd

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. 63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. 19 more sayings from H. G. Wells

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. 21 more wisdom & wit from Miguel de Cervantes

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? 23 sayings from T. S. Eliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? 23 quotes from T. S. Eliot

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. 2 more quotes from Enrico Fermi

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. 4 other thoughts from Jeremy Collier

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. 5 quotes from Robert Staughton Lynd

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. 5 thoughts from Charles Dudley Warner

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. 5 sayings from Frances Wright

You should not ask questions without knowledge. 8 thoughts from W. Edwards Deming

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. 2 quotes from David Ben-Gurion

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. 15 other quotes from William Penn

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. 13 quotes from e. e. cummings

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. 4 wisdom & wit from Shinichi Suzuki

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. 15 other sayings from William Penn

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. 18 quotes from John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. 18 thoughts from John Adams

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Chess is not only knowledge and logic. 3 wisdom & wit from Alexander Alekhine

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. 2 more quotes from David Ben-Gurion

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem. 8 views from W. Edwards Deming

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. 8 quotes from Frank Herbert

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. 14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. 7 views from Joseph Wood Krutch

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more. 12 more quotes from William Cowper

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. 25 sayings from Will Durant

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. 52 other sayings from George Eliot

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. 11 sayings from Bruce Lee

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. 10 thoughts from Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. 25 views from Will Durant

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. 9 sayings from Carl Sagan

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. 14 quotes from Laurence Sterne

The true method of knowledge is experiment. 32 more quotes from William Blake

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. 12 wisdom & wit from James Allen

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. 8 more thoughts from William Shenstone

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. 14 quotes from Wendell Phillips

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. 2 other quotes from Richard Cecil

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. 2 more wisdom & wit from Roland Barthes