Quotes About Knowledge

There is no knowledge that is not power. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It isn’t what they don’t know that hurts people. It’s what they do know that isn’t so. – More Mark Twain Quotes

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

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

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. – Maria Mitchell

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. – – More Mark Twain Quotes

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. – Confucius Quote

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. – Ludwig Borne

Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. – Samuel Johnson

I am not young enough to know everything. – Oscar Wilde

The wise learn many things from their enemies. – Aristophanes

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

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten. – More Mark Twain Quotes

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Eden Phillpotts

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. – Margaret Fuller

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. – Michael Garrett Marino

The only source of knowledge is experience – Albert Einstein

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde

You are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt

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

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Henri Bergson

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

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

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open. – Sir James Dewar

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. – Martin Fischer

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. – Albert Einstein

Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open. – Sir James Dewar

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. – William Shakespeare

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. – Lao Tzu

….that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. – John Wooden

Knowledge has never been known to enter the head via an open mouth. – Doug Larson

There is no substitute for knowledge. – W. Edwards Deming