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Quotes About Knowledge

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.
~ Benedetto Croce
You imagination is more important than your knowledge.
~ Mike Murdock
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
~ Cory Doctorow
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
~ Roger Scruton
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
~ John F. Kennedy
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
~ Jean Piaget
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
~ Hamza Yusuf
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
~ Anatol Rapoport
I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world.
~ Bob Sadino
If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.
~ Doug Phillips
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
~ Plato
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
~ Aristotle
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
~ Chanakya
There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
~ Sai Baba
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
~ Meister Eckhart
The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.
~ Ludwik Fleck
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
~ Bill James
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
~ Michael Ramsey
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.
~ Rahul Gandhi
I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
~ Benjamin Carson
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
~ Gautama Buddha