Knowledge Quotes

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

James Beattie

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ellen Glasgow

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

Ernst Mach

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Freda Adler

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Mary Astell

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

George Jackson

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Walter Gilbert

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Ralph Cudworth

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Havelock Ellis

Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.

Terry Pratchett

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

Talcott Parsons

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

Harrison Salisbury

In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

Skill to do comes of doing

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

James M. Baldwin

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates