knowledge quotes

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The less you know, the more you believe.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Facts are stubborn things.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Study men, not historians.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.