Knowledge Quotes

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Albert J. Nock

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Christopher Shays

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Harry Browne

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

Suzanne Somers

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

Daniel D. Palmer

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

Jacques Lacan

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Henry Miller

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Matt Blunt

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

George Gurdjieff

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Bob Kerrey

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks we now need to support the providers.

Jose Serrano

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

Juan Cole

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Arthur Machen

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Wislawa Szymborska