All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle
10,789

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

Socrates
9,411
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. -Socrates
9,392

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Benjamin Disraeli
7,579

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

Sophocles
5,885
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. -Edgar Allan Poe
5,843

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

Sophocles
5,808

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes
5,659
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. -Lao-tzu
5,556

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

T. S. Eliot
4,488

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

Herbert Spencer
4,163
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -Laurence Sterne
4,133

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

Louis Pasteur
3,707

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
2,194
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
2,192

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
2,161

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon
2,073
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. -Matthew Arnold
1,325

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

Maurice Maeterlinck
1,064

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
581
Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge. -Sir Philip Sidney
461

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
408

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

Albert Einstein
360
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
359

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

Dizzy Dean
358

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

Jane Porter
338
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. -Dr. Laurence J. Peter
329

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
323

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

Diane Arbus
300
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
291