Knowledge Quotes

134 quotations about Knowledge
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus T. Cicero · Knowledge
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Charles Caleb Colton · Knowledge
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton · Knowledge
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius · Knowledge
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Confucius · Knowledge
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius · Knowledge
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
Calvin Coolidge · Knowledge
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper · Knowledge
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp · Knowledge
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings · Knowledge
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas · Knowledge
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
Sir John Denham · Knowledge
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter F. Drucker · Knowledge
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter F. Drucker · Knowledge
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
William J. Durant · Knowledge
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison · Knowledge
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein · Knowledge
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Knowledge
Knowledge is the only elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Knowledge
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Knowledge
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus · Knowledge
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Epictetus · Knowledge
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer · Knowledge
For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
James Elroy Flecker · Knowledge
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
Benjamin Franklin · Knowledge

Authors on Knowledge

Joseph Addison Alfred Adler Sudie Back Francis Bacon Ivern Ball Lucille Ball Robert Benchley R. K. Bergethon Claude Bernard Bible Ambrose Bierce Josh Billings Grant M. Bright Francis Yeats Brown Mark Caine Sandara Carey Carlos Castaneda William Ellery Channing Lord Chesterfield Gilbert K. Chesterton