Knowledge Quotes

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

~ Thomas Reid

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

~ Albert Einstein

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

~ Evan Davis

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

~ William S. Burroughs

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

~ Robert Anthony

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

~ T. S. Eliot

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

~ Emma Bonino

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

~ Peter Drucker

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

~ James Marsh

'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.

~ Lou Doillon

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

~ Nikola Tesla

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.

~ Denis Diderot

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

~ Samuel Johnson

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

~ Michel Foucault

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

~ Pierre Curie

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

~ Sidney Hook

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

~ Polykarp Kusch

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

~ Alison Gopnik

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

~ Henry Adams

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

~ Thomas Berger

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

~ Louis Pasteur

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

~ Charles Darwin

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

~ George Washington

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

~ Stephen Hawking

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

~ Paul Davies

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

~ Hippocrates

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

~ Hippocrates

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

~ Roger Bacon

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

~ Ben Carson

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

~ Dave Ramsey

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

~ Martin Luther King

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

~ John Calvin