KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VII

quotations about knowledge


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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

STEPHEN HAWKING

attributed, The Prism and the Rainbow


Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

ALVIN TOFFLER

Powershift


The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

JOHN ADAMS

Discourses on Davila


Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly there is no Virtue without Knowledge.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way -- by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

RICHARD FEYNMAN

Surely You're Joking


If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son


If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


Our human knowledge is a candle burnt
On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisition.

CHARLES LAMB

"The Old and the New Schoolmaster", Elia and the Last Essays of Elia


Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune


As I came not into life with any knowledge of it, and as my likings are for what is old, I busy myself in seeking knowledge there.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

GIACOMO LEOPARDI

Leopardi: Poems and Prose


I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims


The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

speech to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790


Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit