Knowledge Quotes

"We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements — transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting — profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

- Carl Sagan

"Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had."

- E.B. White

"Indeed, He is ever Knowing and Competent."

- Quran 35:44

"Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You already know what you need to know"

- Yoda

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject so you know you are getting the best possible information."

- Michael Scott

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information."

- Michael Scott

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

- Albert Einstein

"Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is ..."

- Paul Chek

"The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers"

- Steve Carlton

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are."

- Maya Angelou

"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge … observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."

- Denis Diderot

"All the resources we need are in the mind."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your library makes our small corner of the world seem big."

- Belle (2017)

"Knowledge is the source of wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes innovation."

- Peter Drucker

"This is the power of math, people!"

- Spock

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

- Socrates

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

- Socrates

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

- Socrates

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

- Socrates

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."

- Socrates

"Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading. Buying and selling."

- Anita Roddick

"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think."

- Albert Einstein

"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped."

- Louis D. Brandeis

"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."

- Paracelsus

"The best tool in the garden is the knowledge of a gardener."

"The Bible is old, but its truths are always new."