Famous Knowledge Quotes
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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.
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.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
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.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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.