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Quotes About Knowledge

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.
~ Narendra Modi
To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.
~ Walter Russell
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
~ Bernard DeVoto
If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
~ Neil Harbisson
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.
~ Isaac Asimov
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
~ Jeb Bush
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually
~ Malcolm X
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
~ Eric Hoffer
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.
~ John F. Kennedy
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
~ Klaus Fuchs
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.
~ Noam Chomsky
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
~ Maimonides
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
~ Jimmy Wales
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
~ Emile M. Cioran
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
~ Francis Quarles
It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.
~ Edmund Burke