Knowledge Quotes

1. Imagination is more important than knowledge-Albert Einstein

2. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.-Albert Einstein

3. There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it go there -Albert Einstein

4.The only source of knowledge is experience.-Albert Einstein

5.Information is not knowledge. -Albert Einstein

6.Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods -Albert Einstein

7.Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. -Albert Einstein

8.It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -Albert Einstein

9.The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. -Albert Einstein

10.Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

11.Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. -William Shakespeare

12.I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. -Thomas Jefferson

13.An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. -Benjamin Franklin

14.The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. -Benjamin Franklin

15.I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. -John F. Kennedy

16The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. -John F. Kennedy

17.The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. -John F. Kennedy

18.The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -Vince Lombardi

19.For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. -Audrey Hepburn

20.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

21.The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. -Friedrich Nietzsche

22.It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

23.We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year. -Walt Disney

24.True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. -Socrates

25.To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -Socrates

26.A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. -Khalil Gibran

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

28.Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. -Khalil Gibran

29.Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. -Khalil Gibran

30.I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

-Khalil Gibran

31.Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

-Khalil Gibran

32.The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. -Khalil Gibran

33.Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. -Khalil Gibran

34.Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. -Khalil Gibran

35.All men by nature desire knowledge. -Aristotle

36.The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. -Aristotle

37.A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. -Theodore Roosevelt

38.Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -Confucius

40.When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. -Confucius

41.True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -Henry David Thoreau

42.A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -Plato

43.The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. -Plato

44.And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. -Plato

45.Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. -Plato

46.Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. -Plato

47.Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. -Plato

48.Knowledge is true opinion. -Plato

49.Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. -Plato

50.Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. -Plato

51.Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. -Bruce Lee

52.Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. -Lao Tzu

53.If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

-Lao Tzu

54.Knowledge is love and light and vision. -Helen Keller

55.There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. -Napoleon Hill

56.Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix

57.All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. -Voltaire

58.I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible. -Charlie Sheen

59.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

60.No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

61.If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -Henry Ford

62.The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. -Henry Ford

63.A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. -Peter Drucker

64.Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. -Peter Drucker

65.Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. -Peter Drucker

66.Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. -Peter Drucker

67.All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. -Leonardo da Vinci

68.The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. -Sigmund Freud

69.Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. -Leonardo da Vinci

70.The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. -Albert Camus

71.After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. -Albert Camus

72.Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. -Carl Sagan

73.Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. -e. e. cummings

74.The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. -Anais Nin

75.We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. -H. L. Mencken

76.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

77.Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? -T. S. Eliot

78.A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. -T. S. Eliot

79.Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. -T. S. Eliot

80.Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. -Milton Friedman

81.No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. -John Locke

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

83.The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -John Locke

84.The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. -John Locke

85. Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. -John Locke

86.Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. -John Adams

87Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. -John Adams

88.Doubt grows with knowledge. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

89.We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

90.All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

91.Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -James Madison

92.Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. -Carl Jung

93.Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. -Carl Jung

94.Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. -Bertrand Russell

95.The true method of knowledge is experiment. -William Blake

96.The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

97.Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

98.I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

99.The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. -James Madison

100.I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. -Alexander the Great

101.A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -Marcus Garvey

102.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

103.The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. -William S. Burroughs

104.Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. -William S. Burroughs

105.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

106.Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. -Vincent Van Gogh

107.The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. -Elbert Hubbard

108.A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. -Aldous Huxley

109.Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. -Aldous Huxley

110.There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

-Aldous Huxley

111.The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. -Rene Descartes

112.It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. -Immanuel Kant

113.But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. -Immanuel Kant

114.All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. -Immanuel Kant

115.I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. -Immanuel Kant

116.Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. -Immanuel Kant

117Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -Immanuel Kant

118.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

119.The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. -Arthur Schopenhauer

120.Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon

121.Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. -Ambrose Bierce

122.The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. -Ambrose Bierce

123.Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -Ambrose Bierce

124The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. -Blaise Pascal

125.Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. -Blaise Pascal

126.Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. -George Bernard Shaw

127.What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. -George Bernard Shaw

128.Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. -George Bernard Shaw

129.In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. -George Bernard Shaw

130.The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -James A. Baldwin

131.The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. -Leo Buscaglia

132.Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -Alfred Lord Tennyson

133.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

134.We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. -Eric Hoffer

135.You should not ask questions without knowledge. -W. Edwards Deming

136.Lack of knowledge... that is the problem. -W. Edwards Deming

137.Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. -Charles Darwin

138.One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. -Chanakya

139.The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. -Chanakya

140.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. -Marcel Proust

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

142. Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. -Princess Diana

143. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. -Bertrand Russell

144. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. -Bertrand Russell

145. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. -Bertrand Russell

146. The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. -Bertrand Russell

147. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

148. Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

149. The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -Francis Bacon

150. Knowledge and human power are synonymous. -Francis Bacon

151. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. -Francis Bacon

152. He that hath knowledge spareth his words. -Francis Bacon

153. It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

154. The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

155. We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. -Franz Kafka

156. How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. -Franz Kafka

157. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. -Charles Spurgeon

158. Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

159. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov

160. If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. -Isaac Asimov

161. Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. -Isaac Asimov

162. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. -Meister Eckhart

163. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. -Calvin Coolidge

164. Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. -George Eliot

165. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. -Lord Byron

166. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. -Thomas Carlyle

167. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. -Thomas Aquinas

168. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -Laurence Sterne

169. His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. -J. K. Rowling

170. True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. -Robert Mugabe

171. A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. -Hippocrates

172. Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. -Hippocrates

173. There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. -Hippocrates

174. There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. -Michel de Montaigne

175. We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. -Michel de Montaigne

176. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

177. Where knowledge ends, religion begins. -Benjamin Disraeli

178. To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. -Benjamin Disraeli

179. 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

180. Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. -Robin Morgan

181. Wonder is the desire for knowledge. -Thomas Aquinas

182. We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. -Thomas Aquinas

183. The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. -Thomas Aquinas

184. Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. -Dante Alighieri

185. The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. -James Allen

186. In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. -Henry Miller

187. Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. -Henry Miller

188. Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. -Abigail Adams

189. Research is creating new knowledge. -Neil Armstrong

190. In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. -J. Robert Oppenheimer

191. Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. -Thomas Hobbes

192. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. -Samuel Johnson

193. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -Samuel Johnson

194. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -Samuel Johnson

195. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -Samuel Johnson

196. Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. -Thomas Sowell

197. It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -Thomas Sowell

198. There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. -Lee Iacocca

199. Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. -R. Buckminster Fuller

200. Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. -Alexis Carrel

201. If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. -Oswald Chambers

202. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. -Thomas Fuller

203. I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. -Plutarch

204. In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

205. You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. -William Glasser

206. As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. -William Glasser

207. We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. -William Glasser

208. I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. -William Glasser

209. I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. -William Glasser

210. Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. -Anton Chekhov

211. Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. -Ernest Holmes

212. The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. -Ernest Holmes

213. Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. -Josh Billings

214. Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. -H. G. Wells

215. 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

216. Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. - David Hume

217. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. -Ludwig van Beethoven

218. Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. -Hubert H. Humphrey

219. Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. -P. G. Wodehouse

220. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. -George Santayana

221. Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. -George Santayana

222. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. -George Santayana

223. The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. -Herodotus

224. The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. -Miguel de Cervantes

225. My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid-Quentin Tarantino

226. The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. -Bertolt Brecht

227. Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. -John Calvin

228. Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. -William Penn

229. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. -William Penn

230. The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. -James Thurber

231. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. -Horace Mann

232. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. -Herodotus

233. Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. -Baltasar Gracian

234. True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. -Baltasar Gracian

235. He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. -Friedrich August von Hayek

236. To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. -Friedrich August von Hayek

237. Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. -Louis L'Amour

238. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. -Enrico Fermi

239. It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. -Enrico Fermi

240. His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. -Arthur Conan Doyle

241. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -Arthur Conan Doyle

242. When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. -Arthur Conan Doyle

243. 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

244. Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. -Henry Ward Beecher

245. A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. -Milan Kundera

246. If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. -Ramakrishna

247. We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. -Scott Adams

248. The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. -Joseph Addison

249. It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. -Sylvester Stallone

250. We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

251. The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. -Jean Piaget

252. This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. -Jean Piaget

253. It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. -Jean Piaget

254. Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. -Jean Piaget

255. knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. -Jean Piaget

256. To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. -Jean Piaget

257. Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. -Jean Piaget

258. Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. -Anne Rice

259. It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. -William Ellery Channing

260. No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. -William Ellery Channing

261. Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance -William Ellery Channing

262. Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. -Simone Weil

263. To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge -Nicolaus Copernicus

264. How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

-Sophocles

265. If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

-Maynard James Keenan

266. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -Lord Chesterfield

267. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. -Lord Chesterfield

268. Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. -Lord Chesterfield

269. Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. -Chuck Yeager

270. Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. -Orison Swett Marden

271. The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. -Doris Day

272. Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. -David Herbert Lawrence

273. The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. -Lord Acton

274. Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. -Pericles

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