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Quotes About Knowledge

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
~ Leonhard Euler
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.
~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
~ Rene Descartes
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
~ Aristotle
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
~ Maria Montessori
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.
~ Frederick The Great
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
~ Paracelsus
It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.
~ Adolf Hitler
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.
~ Karl Popper
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
~ Rene Descartes
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
~ Abu Hurairah
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
~ Hippocrates
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
~ Mao Zedong
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
~ Massimo Vignelli
I look for the John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!
~ Abigail Williams
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
~ Queen Victoria