Quotes
Quotes about Knowledge
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
...it is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
