Quotes About Knowledge

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

Knowledge is pain that's why it hurts to know.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

Every day I wake up and that's my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.