146 quotes
“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
— Avicenna
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
— Plato
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of our ignorance.”
— Confucius
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
— Socrates
“Knowledge itself is power.”
— Francis Bacon
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Cicero
“To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge.”
— Unknown
“All our knowledge begins with the senses.”
— Immanuel Kant
“A truly knowledgeable person does not deny what they know.”
— Xunzi
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
— Isaac Asimov
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness”
— Al-Ghazali
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“Wonder is the desire for knowledge and the beginning of all understanding”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The more you know the less you need”
— Yvon Chouinard
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
— Brene Brown
“The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie
“What is all knowledge too but recorded experience and a product of history”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Knowledge is power.”
“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
“We do not need more knowledge we need more compassion to heal this wounded world”
— Tenzin Palmo
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“Be not afraid of family life. The island of knowledge in the sea of love is worth every sacrifice.”
— Henry James
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
— Wang Yangming
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Isaac Newton
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.”
— Lao Tzu
“Seeking knowledge at a young age is like engraving on a stone.”
— Hasan al-Basri
“Knowledge is power, but using it is growth.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They know enough who know how to learn.”
— Henry Adams
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice”
— Anton Chekhov
“The ultimate goal of learning is to know oneself.”
“I do not think that I know what I know.”
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
— Benjamin Spock
“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven.”
— Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
“Knowledge is power, but applying it is more important.”
— Franklin
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one ignorance.”
“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”
— Antisthenes
“Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.”
“To cultivate knowledge, love learning; to gain wisdom, know yourself.”
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
— Joseph Joubert
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest and the family is where that knowledge begins.”
“I know that I know nothing.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
— Alexander Pope
“Knowledge without practice is useless.”
— Kant
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
— Augustine
“He who is not impassioned by the Good is not able to know it.”
— Plotinus
“To know what you know, and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“The general population doesnt know whats happening, and it doesnt even know that it doesnt know.”
— Noam Chomsky
“If knowledge is lacking, action is incomplete.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Knowledge grows as it is shared.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
— John Locke
“The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”
“To grow old without acquiring knowledge is like approaching senility”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Knowledge is power, but without passion, it is nothing.”
— Stephen King
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
“Knowledge without action is useless.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
“The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise.”
— Laozi
“To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge.”
— Zisi
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom but time teaches both”
“Knowledge is discovering what you know and what you don't know.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“Because we are denied knowledge of our history we are deprived of standing on each others shoulders”
— Judy Chicago
“Knowledge is not power, but action.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”
“All knowledge begins with experience.”
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof that knows without needing to explain”
— Khalil Gibran
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“I do not think I know what I know.”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.”
“Knowledge is the source of wealth creation”
— Oscar Wilde
“Power without knowledge is useless.”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”
“A room without books is a body without a soul.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“Knowledge is not absolute power.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The more you know, the more you realize you do not know.”
— Aristotle
“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”
— Kafka
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it.”
— Karl Popper
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
“What we know matters, but who we are matters more.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
“No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
“All humans have an instinct to pursue knowledge from birth.”
“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.”
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.”
“Knowledge means knowing that you know.”
“Sharing knowledge is increasing knowledge.”
— Wagner
“Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.”
“Knowledge does not make us slaves; it sets us free.”
— Michael Scott
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”
— Victor Hugo
“The more I read the more I acquire the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
— Voltaire
“Knowledge without action is vanity and action without knowledge is insanity but kindness needs neither to be perfect”
“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”
— Charlie Munger
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
— Dalai Lama V
“Knowledge is power and failure is the teacher that grants it”
“Seeking truth is seeking knowledge.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines all we currently know wonder opens us to everything”
“People dont care how much you know until they know how much you care”
— John Maxwell
“Knowledge and wisdom are different.”
“Knowledge makes us more creative”
— Einstein
“Remember that knowledge is power.”
“Only the educated are free.”
— Epictetus
“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”
“To know what you know and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“What we know is a drop, what we do not know is an ocean.”
“For me I am driven by two main philosophies know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others both infused with wonder”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance”
“Instinct is something which transcends knowledge and wonder transcends both leading us to truth”
— Nikola Tesla
“Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited whereas imagination encircles the world”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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