Knowledge Quotes

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

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

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