knowledge quotes

“Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”

“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“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? ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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— Isaac Asimov

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

— Terry Pratchett

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”

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

“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

“Knowledge is true opinion.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

— Isaac Asimov

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

“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.”

— 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.”

“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

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