Knowledge Quotes

Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish.

Frank Borman

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Peter Kaye

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Frank Oz

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Robert C. Solomon

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Barry Long

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Socrates

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Trofim Lysenko

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Henry Miller

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke
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