knowledge quotes

“Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.”

— Corliss Lamont

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

— Confucius

“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

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

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

— Stephen Hawking

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. ”

— Horace

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ”

— Euripides

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”

— Aldous Huxley

“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ”

— Aldous Huxley

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”

— Lord Byron

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. ”

— Sophocles

“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.”

— Franz Kafka

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

— Franz Kafka

“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. ”

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“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.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

knowledge quotes

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

“People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.”

“Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

“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.”

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”

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

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. ”

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ”

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”

“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”

“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ”

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ”

“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. ”

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”

“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.”

“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. ”

“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.”

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

“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. ”

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”

“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.”