All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can beWhen there's no help in truth!

Sophocles

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao tzu

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Herbert Spencer

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

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

Louis Pasteur

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Confucius

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.

Sir Philip Sidney

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Albert Einstein

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

Dizzy Dean

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Jane Porter

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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 Lauren

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Diane Arbus

In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.

Joseph Badaracco

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger.

Rod Stewart

The fox knows many things - the hedgehog, one big one.

Archilochus

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Mason Cooley

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

Joseph Goebbels

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Mary Mcleod Bethune

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence.

Richard Burdon Haldane

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

Margaret Fuller

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Nathaniel Branden

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

Enrico Fermi

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

Artemus Ward (writer)

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Larry Speakes

Knowledge itself is power.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Thomas C. Haliburton

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Claude Bernard

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Morgan

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Aphra Behn

I look back five years ago, when I thought I was adult and knew everything about the world, and I realize I knew nothing.

Neve Campbell

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Louis L'Amour

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Nadia Boulanger

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

Michael Korda

Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

A. A. Hodge

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Hu Shih

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander The Great

Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Minna Antrim

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Remy De Gourmont

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Lyn Yutang

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Eduardo Chillida

Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.

Ethel Watts Mumford

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself- -ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Oscar Wilde

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Herodotus

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Benjamin Disraeli

We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.

John F. Kennedy

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas H. Huxley

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

Plotinus

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus

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

Theodore Roosevelt

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

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

Charles Darwin

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Epicurus

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Confucius

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

Confucius

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est).

Sir Francis Bacon

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Sir Francis Bacon

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

Spanish Proverb

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Lord Chesterfield

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

Thomas H. Huxley

Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

Ayn Rand

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Blaise Pascal

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

L. Ron Hubbard

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Cicero

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali

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.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham J. Heschel

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

Academic Bowl is a great way to keep up with all that useless knowledge that you sometimes accidentally get in class.

Catie Eisel

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Adolf Hitler

We are pleased to welcome John and Will to our Board of Directors. With their depth and breadth of experience, they bring relevant knowledge of the industry and an important financial perspective, which we believe will enhance the goals of the Company.

Hugh Miller

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

We're looking to see if this person (Dale) had knowledge of the animal's prior behavior.

Bob Garcia

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

My friends have always said that I'm a stockpile of useless knowledge, so hopefully it will amount to something.

Nick Hurd

This account is wrong. The Federal Intelligence Service and, therefore, also the government, had until now no knowledge of such a plan.

Ulrich Wilhelm

People my age have a lot of memories and knowledge of music from that time.

Jerry Camp

...in God's name I command you to let me know as soon as you are aware of the arrival of Fastolf; because if he should pass without my knowledge, I promise you that I will have [your] head removed.

Joan of Arc

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben gurion

He has the scientific knowledge, and I have the political knowledge.

Bernard Siegel

Knowledge, optimism and inspiration in people living with cancer.

Terry Murphy

As we continue to execute our business restructuring program, Frank's deep knowledge of both our financial and product portfolio will be key.

Henry Schacht

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.

Jean Piaget

Before, once it has been aired, it's gone, and it doesn't really contribute to our knowledge space.

Jakob Nielsen

Oh, man, I didn't have a clue about special teams. From not having any knowledge to actually playing on pretty much all of them is pretty much a full circle for me.

Dewayne White

At 16 we made the decisions (about her treatment) with her knowledge and input. Her input now probably supersedes ours.

Andrea Hall

Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.

Michael Apted

I have relied on his sound knowledge of the business of cricket, his absolute integrity and his tireless commitment to West Indies cricket.

Ken Gordon

It's shocking to find the difference in the level of knowledge between parents and children these days.

John Shehan

We drew from all the information we collected and made our decision. Frankly, we went because of the knowledge that the manager had.

Russ Hale

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

She brings a lot of passion and knowledge.

John Pont

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

Cotton Mather

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Fran Drescher

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Richard Hyman

We've had a couple of people who've asked the question, but to the best of my knowledge, we haven't run into that situation.

Chip Harrison

We'd like to create the same with women's history and to illustrate the knowledge that they have added to the history of our country.

Susan Jollie

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cry when you see these kids around the world, ... would never be able to afford the (hearing aids) and had no knowledge they would be able to hear.

Michael Bolton

I think the knowledge of their endangered status has increased.

Mike Quick

We're very happy the water district decided to do the right thing, ... it's a little disconcerting they would remove it without anyone's knowledge.

Brian Conley

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

Lucy Stone

If a woman is going to use the knowledge to help better prepare herself for how she's going to take care of her baby, the test could be helpful.

Ann Scheidler

Some of the older guys said they felt like freshmen again. Early on, everybody's starting at the same level of knowledge.

Dorien Bryant

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

John Milton

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

This is a great opportunity for me, ... I'm fortunate to have an opportunity to learn more about the game and continue my basketball knowledge.

Louisiana Tech

Fear God and he will give you knowledge.

Quran

The ball is entirely in his court. We really have no knowledge of where he is with the project, other than what we read in the papers.

Dan Devine

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Alvin Toffler

I think he's got a pretty bad concussion. Hopefully, he'll be fine. It's his first concussion to my knowledge.

Kedric Golston

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

Hippocrates

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Frederick Buechner

Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.

Jean Piaget

He was actually paying them. He was the paymaster. He had firsthand knowledge. He would run down to New Jersey, get a check, cash the check and pay.

Miguel Fuentes

Through the talks, we hope to make our position clear to the DPRK and get further knowledge about their stance.

Akitaka Saiki

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

Thomas Hobbes

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

I am giving local authorities the power to run licensing regimes in their own areas. They have the local knowledge, the know-how and are accountable to the local electorate.

Tessa Jowell

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope.

Lloyd Alexander

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

To my knowledge the money hasn't been used for that purpose.

Peter Adang

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Charlie Trotter

In some ways, our basic knowledge about Pluto could all fit on a three-by-five card.

Richard Binzel

Jon brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Constellation Europe as we continue to implement our international growth strategy.

Rob Sands

We are extremely happy to have Steve back as our Chief Steward. He has a no-nonsense approach and his knowledge and dedication to racing will benefit everyone.

Ron Bennett

His stepdaughter was his surrogate wife. We believe his wife had some bad health. We believe with his knowledge of medicine that he kept her so doped up that she didn't know what was going on.

Delma Collins

I have no knowledge of that.

Welshman Ncube

I can't openly say that human rights are violated in Cuba. I don't have either the moral authority or the knowledge that would allow me to say so.

Nestor Kirchner

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

St. Thomas Aquinas

J.C. Flowers is very broadly involved with financial service companies of various types and is an entity with some knowledge of the market.

Denise Valentine

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Audre Lorde

Doubt is not below knowledge but above it.

Alain Rene Lesage

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

It's a big puzzle. If this is a knowledge economy, how come the brains aren't being compensated? Instead, the owners of physical capital are getting the rewards.

Josh Bivens

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

We allege that in carrying out that campaign, they pulled no punches, ... For decades, they repeatedly and consistently denied that smoking cigarettes causes disease, despite their knowledge that it does.

David Ogden

They're similar as far as their knack, their knowledge of the game. They both run great angles to the ball. They have a great feel for the game.

Tony Severino