Top 656 Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge of God’s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole
When we can reach out as coaches and give back to these kids and touch them with the knowledge and with the thought process to give them the opportunity to do something that they dream about doing, that’s what God put us here for.
Jermaine O’Neal
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Richard Cecil
The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
Leila Aboulela
When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Abu Bakr
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Thomas Sowell
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It’s not yet knowledge; it’s an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
Nathaniel Branden
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs – these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
Max Weber
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao Tzu
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.
Rudolf Steiner
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.
Antonio Gramsci
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge.
David Suzuki
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully, every time, you raise the bar.
Ann Patchett
If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.
Herschel Walker
An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.
Joe Kaeser
Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.
Logan Browning
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
Christopher McQuarrie
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Alain Rene Le Sage
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Ernest Holmes
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff
My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
Ian Millar
As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
Tom Landry
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Albert J. Nock
Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species’ desperate course.
Anohni
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence – or you don’t.
Jon Gruden
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
David Hume
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
Leonardo da Vinci
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I’m seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
Mary J. Blige
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J. Watson
Knowledge comes from the past, so it’s safe. It is also out of date. It’s the opposite of originality… Experience is the opposite of being creative.
Paul Arden
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
Adam Weishaupt
Creation’s highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
Said Nursi
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
Baha’u’llah
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it’s too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
Adam D’Angelo
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
Abraham Verghese
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word ‘prevail.’ Prevail!
James D. Watson
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
It’s a bit cliche, but you can’t go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you’re a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.
Issa Rae
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right pers

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Ethel Watts Mumford
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus