knowledge quotes

“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

“You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

— William James

“I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.”

— Stephen King

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy