For also knowledge itself is power. Francis Bacon

Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. Stokely Carmichael

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. Maria Mitchell

The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot

Doubt grows with knowledge. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi

You should not ask questions without knowledge. W. Edwards Deming

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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. William Ralph Inge

Research is creating new knowledge. Neil Armstrong

Knowledge is true opinion. Plato

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. Mary McLeod Bethune

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. Saint Thomas Aquinas

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. Susanne Langer

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Benjamin Disraeli

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. Roger Bacon

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Albert Einstein

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. Orison Swett Marden

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake. Steve Powers

Knowledge is the life of the mind. Abu Bakr

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. Stanley Fish

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. Novalis

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. Voltaire

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. Charles Caleb Colton

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Albert Einstein

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. Kong Fu Zi

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. Clifford Stoll

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. Charles Dudley Warner

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. Henry Miller

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Nicolaus Copernicus

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. Abraham Joshua Heschel

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. Samuel Butler

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. David Hare

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. Muhammed Iqbal

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran

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

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. Jean Piaget

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. Lao Tzu

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

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. Princess Diana

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. Friedrich Nietzsche

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself. Talcott Parsons

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Michel de Montaigne

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. David Herbert Lawrence

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. Friedrich Nietzsche

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. George Bernard Shaw

All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. William Glasser

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. Samuel Johnson

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. Voltaire

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. George Bernard Shaw

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Leonardo da Vinci

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. Blaise Pascal

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. Anne Sullivan

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Gilbert K. Chesterton

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Avicenna

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. Ambrose Bierce

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Thomas Fuller

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Anthony J. D'Angelo

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. Will Durant

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. Ryszard Kapuscinski

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Benjamin Franklin

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. David Bohm

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. Jean Piaget

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. Samuel Butler

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Francis Bacon

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. Edwin Louis Cole

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. Lord Byron

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. Albert Camus

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

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now. Edward Tufte

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. Nathaniel Branden

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged. Russell Simmons

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal

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

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. Bertrand Russell

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. Talcott Parsons

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization. Howard Gardner

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Baltasar Gracian

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment. Charlie Trotter

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. Jean Stafford

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. William James

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin

The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. Kahlil Gibran

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Richard Cecil

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. Peter Drucker

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller

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

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. David Hume

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. Lao Tzu

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it. Alain Rene Le Sage

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom Charles Spurgeon

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. Kofi Annan

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better. Brian Eno

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them. Rex Hunt

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. Arthur Schopenhauer

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. Dennis Potter

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world. Douglas Engelbart

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. Abu Bakr

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. Pericles

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. William Cowper

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Lord Chesterfield

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russell

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. Sally Ride

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. William Hazlitt

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. James M. Baldwin

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Kahlil Gibran

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. Saint Thomas Aquinas

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayana

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. Ernest Holmes

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others. Bob Kerrey

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. Hippocrates

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. Bertrand Russell

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. Jeremy Taylor

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. Sophocles

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry. Richard King

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. Jean Piaget

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge. Edward Thorndike

There is one quality which 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

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. Richard Cobden

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. Maynard J. Keenan

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Denis Diderot

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. Carl Jung

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. Anne Rice

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. Wilhelm Dilthey

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can. Joe Mantegna

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. Paul Nurse

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere. Hermann Hesse

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way. Jurgen Klinsmann

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Francis Bacon

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. Roald Amundsen

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. Avicenna

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Thomas Hobbes

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. Franz Kafka

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. Marcel Proust

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. Horace

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say. Barbara McClintock

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them. Carol Bellamy

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. Thomas J. Watson

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. Maria Mitchell

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

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. Rocco DiSpirito

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Kahlil Gibran

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. Mary Wollstonecraft

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