Knowledge Quotes

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

~ Plato

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

~ John Holt

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

~ Thomas À Kempis

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

~ Brie Larson

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

~ Hermann Hesse

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

~ Edward Levi

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.

~ Chuck Norris

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

~ Plato

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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.

~ Emeril Lagasse

Consumers deserve the right to know what's in their food - and obviously, most people want that choice. It's hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.

~ Michael Specter

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

~ Martin Luther King

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

~ Maria Monk

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

~ Will Smith

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

~ Charles Spurgeon

The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

~ Hamza Yusuf

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

~ James Mark Baldwin

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

~ Albert Hammond

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

~ Samuel Smiles

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

~ Nicki Minaj

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

~ Lucy Stone

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ David Bailey

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

~ Jean Piaget

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

~ Joe Mantegna

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

~ Plato

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

~ Isaac Asimov

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

~ Enrico Fermi

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

~ Sonny Perdue

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

~ Marcus Garvey

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

~ David Cameron