105 Knowledge Quotes
- “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” – Lao Tzu
2. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
3. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
4. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
5. “Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.” – Brian Tracy
6. “Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.” – Eoin Colfer
7. “Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.” – Thomas Watson
8. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Will Durant
9. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
10. “Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Knowledge Is Power Quotes
11. “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.” – Charles Baudelaire
12. “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” – Alan Moore
13. “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.” – Nicolaus Copernicus
14. “There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.” – Gene Wolfe
15. “The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.” – John F. Kennedy
16. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein
17. “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” Anais Nin
18. “Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
19. “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” – Jane Austen
20. “Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.” – Veronica Roth
Sharing Knowledge Quotes
21. “Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.” – Horace Mann
22. “If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?” – Thomas Henry Huxley
23. “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker” – Bram Stoker
24. “Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.” – Louis L’Amour
25. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” – John Locke
26. “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” – Alan Moore
27. “New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” – Kurt Vonnegut
28. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
29. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
30. “I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.” – Thomas Jefferson
Quotes about Wisdom and Knowledge
31. “The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.” – Napoleon Hill
32. “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov
33. “Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.” – Terry Goodkind
34. “In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.” – Joseph Badaracco
35. “Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ” – Abigail Adams
36. “Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.” -Dan Brown
37. “Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.” – Maria V. Snyde
38. “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” – Frank Herbert
39. “All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.” – Arthur C. Aufderheide
40. “Knowledge with action converts adversity into prosperity.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Quotes About Knowledge and Education
41. “Some people still think knowledge is power.” – Chuck Palahniuk
42. “Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer
43. “I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.” – Immanuel Kant
44. “Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” – Adelaide Hoodless
45. “I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.” – Hermann Hesse
46. “Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.” – Fulton J. Sheen
47. “Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.” – Miles Davis
48. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann wolfgang von Goethe
49. “Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.” – Imam Al-Ghazali
50. “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.” – Nicolaus Copernicus
Inspirational Knowledge Quotes
51. “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” – Miles Kington
52. “Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn’t have to work too hard to get it.” – Robert Liparulo
53. “The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” – John Locke
54. “Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.” – Margaret Rogerson
55. “Knowledge counts but common sense matters.” – LouAnne Johnson
56. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey
57. “An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything” – Veronica Wedgwood
58. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
59. “Knowledge itself is power.” – Francis Bacon
60. “A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.” – Mark Rutherford
Short Knowledge Quotes
61. “These days, people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.” – Vernon Cooper
62. “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” – Veronica Roth
63. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
64. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn Vos Savant
65. “I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don’t believe in forbidden knowledge.” – Andrea Cremer
66. “Knowledge increases by sharing but not by saving.” – Lyrikal
67. “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” – Samuel Johnson
68. “Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
69. “A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. ” – Peter Drucker
70. “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.” – Dalai Lama XIV
Knowledge Quotes For Leaners
71. “The knowledge of all things is possible” – Leonardo da Vinci
72. “I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss” – Maya Angelou
73. “There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.” – Buddha
74. “We do not need more knowledge but more wisdom. Wisdom comes from our own attention.” – Jack Kornfield
75. “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.” – Audre Lorde
76. “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” – Frank Herbert
77. “Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.” – Idries Shah
78. “Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.” – John Wesley
79. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
80. “Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring. Small words are chatter.” – Zhuangzi
81. “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” – immanuel kant
82. “Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.” – J. Krishnamurti
83. “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
84. “As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.” – Charles Morgan
85. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Daniel Boorstin
86. “Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.” – George Gordon Byron
87. “Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.” – Michel Foucault
88. “Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.” – Plato
89. “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” – Karl R. Popper
90. “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” – Anton Chekov
Mind-Provoking Knowledge Quotes
91. “Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” – Thomas H. Huxley
92. “Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.” – Amit Kalantri
93. “My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.” – Muhammad Ali
94. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus
95. “As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” – Albert Einstein
96. “I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.” – Kristin Scott Thomas
97. “The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” – Isaac Asimov
98. “Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.” – Plato
99. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan
100. “Real knowledge is intrinsic and it’s built from the ground up.” – Naval Ravikant
102. “Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.” – Jim Butcher
103. “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
104. “Timeless knowledge prepares you for a changing world.” – James Pierce
105. “Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.” – Vincent Van Goth
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