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Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.
~ James Patterson
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
~ Ludwig Borne
Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
~ Sam Harris
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
~ George Santayana
Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.
~ Peter Drucker
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
~ Jeremy Bentham
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
~ Umar
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
~ Neil Young
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
~ Ralph Raico
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
~ Zooey Deschanel
You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.
~ Don King
Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.
~ Frank Knight
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
~ Stephen Hawking
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
~ Horace Mann
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
~ Howard Nemerov
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
~ Cyril Joad
There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.
~ Mongkut, King of Siam
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
~ Thomas Huxley
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
~ Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
~ T.S. Eliot