Quotes
Quotes about Knowledge
The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Knowledge is power.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount first principles, and to take nobody's word about them.
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Wisdom and knowledge decrease in inverse proportion to age.
If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect..
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
Knowledge without religion will no more sanctify than painted fire will burn, or the sight of water cleanse.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
