Knowledge Quotes: Insights and Inspiration (Page 3)

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

"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, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail"

David Hare, Playwright

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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

Voltaire, Writer

"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, Writer

"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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, Dramatist

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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, Novelist

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow"

Cicero, Philosopher

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity"

Cicero, Philosopher

"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, Writer

"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"All men by nature desire knowledge"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The only source of knowledge is experience"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Information is not knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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

Plato, Philosopher

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous"

Plato, Philosopher

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

Plato, Philosopher

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

Plato, Philosopher

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

Plato, Philosopher

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

Plato, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

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