Famous Knowledge Quotes



Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Swett Marden

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

David Hume

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Benjamin Disraeli

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Henry Ward Beecher

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Vincent van Gogh

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

Voltaire

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Khalil Gibran

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

Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Albert Einstein

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteur

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

Albert Einstein

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Francis Bacon

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

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