Knowledge Quotes

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. (Socrates)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. View quote
Sophocles
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice. View quote
Aristotle
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. View quote
Laozi
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. (Thomas Carlyle)
For knowledge, too, is itself power. View quote
Francis Bacon
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. View quote
James Madison
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. View quote
Joseph Addison
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get. View quote
Bertrand Russell
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. View quote
Albert Einstein
Chess is not only knowledge and logic. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. (Stephen Hawking)
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. View quote
Laurence Sterne
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. View quote
James Meade
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. View quote
Margaret Fuller