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Quotes About Knowledge

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.
~ Socrates
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
~ John Maurice Clark
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.
~ John Locke
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
~ Plotinus
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
~ Michel Foucault
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
~ F. H. Bradley
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.
~ Francis of Assisi
Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.
~ Ray Mears
The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
~ George Washington
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
~ Alvin Toffler
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
~ Rene Descartes
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
~ Plotinus
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
~ Anne Sullivan Macy
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
~ Sivananda
Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.
~ Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.
~ Luther Standing Bear
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
~ Harriet Martineau