Knowledge Quotes

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
Aristotle

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.
Sudie Back

Knowledge is like waters; some descend from the heavens, some spring from the earth. For all knowledge proceeds from a twofold source-either from divine inspiration or external sense.
Francis Bacon

Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
Marsha Blackburn

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Lawrence Bragg

Art upsets, science reasures.
Georges Braque

I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchageableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl S. Buck

The Secret’s message is to empower people. Its message releases people from feeling like victims and gives them the knowledge to intentionally create their lives the way they want.
Rhonda Byrne

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds most grow.
Rachel Carson

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that comes form knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra

I like to learn, but I don’t like to be taught.
Winston Churchill

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

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey

It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.
Dalai Lama

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
Dalai Lama

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill which must be learned.
Edward de Bono

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant

Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Alva Edison

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.
Albert Einstein

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

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

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant

It is our movements that not only express knowledge and facilitate greater cognitive function, they actually grow the brain as they increase in complexity.
Carla Hannaford

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephan Hawking

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
William Hazlitt

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
Victor Hugo

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Henry Huxley

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant

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

Absorb what is useful, disregard the rest.
Bruce Lee

Knowing is not enougth, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
Bruce Lee

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

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, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.
Muhammad

The acquisition of knowledge is a duty incumbent on every Muslim, male and female.
Muhammad

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norias

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
Plato

Knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
Plotinus

Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Rembrandt

Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Anthony Robbins

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers

The more you know the less you need to say.
Jim Rohn

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence; it's a matter of inspiration.
Jim Rohn

Knowing a lot…is a springboard to creativity.
Charlie Rose

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Jonathan Schattke

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the only one who'll decide where you'll go.
Dr. Seuss

The longer the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph Sockman

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you know.
Benjamin Spock

Always remember your brilliance.
Alexandra Stoddard

Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not.
Geraint Straker

Traveling is the death of ignorance.
Mark Twain

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
Chuang Tzu

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
Vauvenargues

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy.
Thomas J. Watson

Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises form ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren’t there before.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

True knowledge leads to love.
William Wordsworth