Knowledge Quotes

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy."
-Albert Einstein

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
-Albert Einstein

"All men by nature desire knowledge."
-Aristotle

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
-Socrates

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
-Socrates

"Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
-Sophocles

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can beWhen there's no help in truth!"
-Sophocles

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
-T. S. Eliot

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."
-Herbert Spencer

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

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
-Laurence Sterne

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge."
-Lao tzu

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
-Confucius

"When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again."
-Confucius

"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."
-J. K. Rowling

"Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge."
-Matthew Arnold

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

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."
-Sir Philip Sidney

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."
-Maria Mitchell

"I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head."
-Dizzy Dean

"Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame."
-Jane Porter

"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
-Dr. Laurence J. Peter

"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within."
-Ralph Lauren

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
-Diane Arbus