Knowledge Quotes

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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

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

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

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.

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?

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

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

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.