Knowledge Quotes

"Mankind has a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

- Samuel Johnson

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting."

- Carlos Castaneda

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."

- Karl Popper

"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."

- Anais Nin

"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."

- Horace Mann

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading."

- David Bailey

"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

- Simone Weil

"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."

- Margaret Fuller

"Knowledge itself is power."

- Francis Bacon

"No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

- John Locke

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

- Alexander Pope

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

- Plato

"All men by nature desire knowledge."

- Aristotle

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Immanuel Kant

"I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."

- Jacob Bronowski

"The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge."

- John Young

"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."

- Terry Goodkind

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

- Warren Buffett

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."

- Albert Einstein

"The progress of mankind depends in large measure upon new ideas, and the rate of this progress in turn depends largely upon the speed with which the ideas are disseminated."

- George Gallup

"The more extensive the knowledge of what has been done, the greater the power of knowing what to do."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Information wants to be free, but value wants to be paid for."

- Doc Searls

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The plural of ‘anecdote’ is not ‘data.’"