Quotes About Knowledge

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.