knowledge quotes

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

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Only the educated are free.

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

Knowledge is power.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Science is nothing but perception.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.