Knowledge Quotes

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Thomas Berger

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Grant M. Bright

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft

How honorable is knowledge, that the one who does not have it, says he does. How dishonorable is ignorance, that the one who has it says he does not.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question.

Ali al-Rida

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Archilochus

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Paolo Bacigalupi

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ralph W. Sockman

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Albert Szent-Gyˆrgyi

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion.

Unknown

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Michael Garrett Marino

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

The one who acts without knowledge, destroys and ruins more than he rectifies.

Muhammad ibn Al_al Taqi

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.

Panchatantra

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Plato