Knowledge Quotes

8542 quotes by 4159 authors

Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness. — Baltasar Gracian
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. — Arthur Helps
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see? — John Heywood
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he… — Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. — Samuel Johnson
Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new… — David Lilienthal
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything. — Lucian
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes.… — Horace Mann
Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass… — William Matthews
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most… — Marshall McLuhan
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what… — Hannah More
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing. — Blaise Pascal
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that… — Ayn Rand
Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now… — Rembrandt
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. — Aristotle
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. — Isaac Asimov
It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning. — Chester Barnard
I am not young enough to know everything. — James M. Barrie

Who Wrote These Knowledge Quotes

4,159 authors contributed a total of 8,542 Knowledge Quotes, led by these top contributors: