Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Knowledge

Knowledge

Access to knowledge is the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.--Toni Morrison
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.--Juvenal
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.--Isaac Asimov
Be an explorer ... read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play ... do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.--Charles 'Chic' Thompson (What a Great Idea)
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.--B. H. Liddell Hart (The Ghost of Napoleon)
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, arguments an exchange of ignorance.--Robert Quillen
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.--Thomas Henry Huxley (Lay Sermons)
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.--William Ellery Channing
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.--Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind)
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.--Ivan Pavlov
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.--Lyndon Johnson (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.-- Lao-tzu
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.--Albert Einstein
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.--Daniel Boorstin
I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.--Marie Curie
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?--Thomas Huxley
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.--Susanne K. Langer
Individuals are said to be "in pursuit" of knowledge. They are said to "search" for knowledge. They are said to be "on a quest" for knowledge. They describe themselves as "seekers after" knowledge. All these idioms suggest the same thing: that the knowledge already exists that the individual has yet to find. No one ever says they have "created" knowledge, for, of course, they cannot.--Michael Rawls (Friday's Inspiration, 4/21/06)
Information is not knowledge.--Albert Einstein
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.--Samuel Johnson
It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.--Carol Pearson (The Hero Within)
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.--Jeremy Taylor
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.--John A. Morrison
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.--Martin H. Fischer
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.--Thomas Szasz
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.--Peter Kay
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.--Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.--Steve Droke
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.--William Cowper ("Winter Walk at Noon" The Task)
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Knowledge is the food of the soul.--Plato (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.--Alvin Toffler (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.--Panchatantra
Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action.--Richard Keeves
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.--Ralph W. Sockman
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning if movement from moment to moment.--J. Krishnamurti
My philosophy is anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.--Gabrielle Reece
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.--Sandra Carey
Not all knowledge is right out in plain sight, and it may take careful research, consideration and conclusion. Seeking Light in this manner, banishing my own shadows of ignorance, has helped me to see the effects of malice, envy and self-seeking, and the corroding influences of prejudice and intolerance. May these shadows, someday, be gone from this planet!--Michael Rawls (Friday's Inspiration, 4/21/06)
Not by measuring our knowledge, but by admitting the grandeur of the unknowable and telling ourselves that we depend entirely on it, shall we attain the full amplitude of our soul and the greatest measure of justice in our life.--Jeanne de Veitinghoff (The Understanding of Good)
Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.--Nigerian Proverb
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.--Oscar Wilde
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.--Robert Lynd
Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Far and away the most important thing in human life is living it.--Frank R. Barry
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.--Sir Karl Popper (Conjectures and Refutations)
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge.--Isaac Bashevis Singer (interview by Burgin New York Times Magazine December 3, 1978)
Play is the beginning of knowledge.--George Dorsey
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.--John Locke
The recipe of perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.--Elbert Hubbard
The saying that knowledge is power is not quite true. Used knowledge is power, and more than power. It is money, and service, and better living for our fellowmen, and a hundred other good things. But mere knowledge, left unused, has no power in it.--Edward E. Free
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.--Carl Sagan (Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science)
Seek knowledge from cradle to the grave.--Mohammad (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.--Ambrose Bierce
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody know some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.--Lord Chesterfeld
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.--Bertrand Russell
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.--Vernon Cooper
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.--Brian Tracy
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.--Marilyn vos Savant
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.--Albert Einstein
Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshman bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates.--Abbott Lawrence Lowell
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives)
We can get over being poor, but it takes longer to get over being ignorant.--Jane Sequichie Hifler (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.--Maria Mitchell (in Maria Mitchell by Kendall)
We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.--Rutherford D. Rogers
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.--Vine Deloria, Jr.
What we need to acknowledge, now more than ever, is that we do not know everything. We cannot know everything. Knowledge changes.... The only thing we can count on to see us through an uncertain future is our ability to ask questions.--Andrea Batista Schlesinger (the Death of "Why?")
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?--T. S. Eliot
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.--Albert Einstein
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.--Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.--Norton Juster (Phantom Tollbooth)
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.--Thomas Fuller
Zeal will do more than knowledge.--William Hazlitt