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

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Khalil Gibran

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

Francis Bacon

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

John Locke

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

Sigmund Freud

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Orison Swett Marden

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

Juvenal

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Simone Weil

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

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