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Quotes About Knowledge

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
~ Tom Shadyac
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
~ Immanuel Kant
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
~ Samuel Johnson
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
~ Edmund Wilson
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
~ Robert Browning
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
~ Blaise Pascal
When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore
~ J. K. Rowling
I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything.
~ LeBron James
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
~ Carl Mydans
Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
~ Ambrose Bierce
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reading gave me hope.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.
~ Michelle Sagara
I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.
~ Ellen Page
We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.
~ Stephen Hawking
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
~ Lloyd Alexander
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
~ Dorothea Brande
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
~ T.S. Eliot
Books are humanity in print.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.
~ George Jonas