Knowledge Quotes

"I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter."

- Jay-Z

"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."

- George Gurdjieff

"We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge."

- Jack LaLanne

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

- Plato

"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse."

- Zhuangzi

"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."

- Arthur Miller

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."

- Richard Cecil

"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

- Carl Jung

"The true method of knowledge is experiment."

- William Blake

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

- Hippocrates

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

- T. S. Eliot

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

- John Archibald Wheeler

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

- William Shakespeare

"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility."

- Robin Morgan

"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."

- Abu Bakr

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

- Socrates

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

- Plato

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

- Warren Buffett

"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."

- Peter Drucker

"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."

- Lao Tzu

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."

- Ralph W. Sockman

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

- Louis L'Amour

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As scientists, we know that each increment in knowledge, every marginal gain, when added together can make big differences to the lives of people with epilepsy."

- Professor Sameer Zuberi

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The strongest human instinct is to impart information. The second strongest is to resist it."

- Kenneth Grahame

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

- Mark Twain