Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon

Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is best and fittest, or because our knowledge is at the time of action not present to the mind

Samuel Johnson

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Mikhail Bakunin

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Jimmy Wales

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Plato

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

George Eliot

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Seth Lloyd

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

George Eliot

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Johnny Isakson

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Mark Caine

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Trofim Lysenko

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Jean Piaget

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

William Glasser

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

LaoTzu

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

John Milton

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Darius Ogden Mills

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

Charles Stanley