Quotes about Knowledge

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."

"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."

"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility."

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading."

"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"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."

"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."

"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."

"I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. -Jay"

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."

"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."

"The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders."

"As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?"

"Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis."

"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind."

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."

"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."

"Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted."

"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."

"My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis."

"Fine art is knowledge made visible."

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"Knowledge is the life of the mind."

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."