knowledge quotes

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

Many admire, few know.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The only source of knowledge is experience.