Quotes About Knowledge

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

Knowledge must come through action.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.