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Quotes About Knowledge

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
~ William Holden
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
~ Toni Morrison
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
~ Immanuel Kant
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
~ Plato
In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.
~ T. Harv Eker
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
~ Thomas Paine
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
~ Aga Khan IV
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"
~ Claire Fagin
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
~ Kenneth M. Stampp
God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.
~ Jesse Duplantis
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
~ Daniel Dennett
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
~ Robert Quillen
Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.
~ Antanas Mockus
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
~ Anais Nin
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
~ Juvenal