Knowledge Quotes - page 2

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)
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. View quote
William Davenant
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. View quote
Frank Herbert
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. View quote
Arthur Miller
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. View quote
Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The only source of knowledge is experience. View quote
Albert Einstein
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. (Doris Day)
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. View quote
Horace Mann
The mediaeval university looked backwards: it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge... The modern university looks forward: it is a factory of new knowledge. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. View quote
James Baldwin
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. View quote
David Bohm
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. View quote
John Cheever
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. (Isaac Asimov)
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. View quote
Isaac Asimov
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? View quote
T. S. Eliot
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. View quote
H. L. Mencken