Knowledge Quotes

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Anthony

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.

Crates

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

H.L. Mencken

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl G. Jung

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Jeremy Taylor

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Joseph Addison