Knowledge Quotes

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. Claude Bernard

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. Albert Einstein

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? T H Huxley

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organise for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning. T H Huxley

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

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. Heraclitus

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. James Madison

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. Alvin Toffler

He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man’s use more than his own. William Penn

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Lord Alfred Tennyson

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Henry David Thoreau

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Richard Feynman

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi

Knowledge comes of learning well retain’d. Dante Alighieri

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

I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the chaos of ignorance. David Ogilvy

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice. Stuart Wilde

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. Basil Liddell Hart

Knowledge divorced from life equals sickness. Saul Bellow

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. William Cowper

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, must be prayed for. Thomas Arnold

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Jacob Bronowski

Woe be unto him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one. Language, literature and history, physics, math and philosophy – subjects which seem the most remote from one another – are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system. Jules Michelet

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke