Knowledge Quotes

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

Kahlil Gibran

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean Piaget

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

William Glasser

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

George Andrew Olah

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Auguste Comte

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

R. K. Bergethon

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

Chandler Burr, The Emperor of Sc

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Thomas Fuller

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farrar

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck