Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
25 quotes from Simone Weil
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
19 other quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
2 more wisdom & wit from Adam Weishaupt
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
22 sayings from Henry Adams
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
19 more quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
19 other wisdom & wit from Alfred North Whitehead
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
2 other views from Van Wyck Brooks
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
9 thoughts from William S. Burroughs
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
21 more quotes from Anais Nin
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
14 more wisdom & wit from Bertolt Brecht
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
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.
3 other quotes from Nicolaus Copernicus
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
32 more views from Michel de Montaigne
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
7 quotes from Buffalo Bill
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
6 other sayings from Thomas J. Watson
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
9 views from William S. Burroughs
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
6 quotes from Ella Maillart
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
4 wisdom & wit from Thomas Malthus
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
7 thoughts from Jeremy Bentham
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
2 quotes from Robert Quillen
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
23 more thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
6 wisdom & wit from Phyllis McGinley
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
105 other sayings from Albert Einstein
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
27 other quotes from James Madison
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
105 more wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
11 other quotes from Rene Descartes
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
105 other sayings from Albert Einstein
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
23 other thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
5 other quotes from Augustus Hare
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
2 other views from Corliss Lamont
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
2 sayings from Wilhelm Reich
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
6 more thoughts from Luther Burbank
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
6 quotes from Luther Burbank
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
2 views from Ralph Ellison
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
7 thoughts from Pearl Bailey
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
3 quotes from Thomas Reid
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
13 sayings from Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
13 wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
11 quotes from William Ellery Channing
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
70 more thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
13 thoughts from Immanuel Kant
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 more quotes from George Herbert
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
13 more thoughts from Immanuel Kant
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
3 sayings from Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
11 quotes from William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
9 sayings from Ludwig Wittgenstein
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
42 quotes from Josh Billings
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
16 wisdom & wit from David Hume
Science is organized knowledge.
20 quotes from Herbert Spencer
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
13 wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
8 other views from Thomas Hobbes
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
20 other quotes from Herbert Spencer
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.
38 more quotes from William Hazlitt
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
20 other sayings from Herbert Spencer
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
27 more quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
38 views from William Hazlitt
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
9 quotes from George Henry Lewes
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
2 views from Wilbur Wright
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.
6 quotes from Robert Delaunay
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
3 other thoughts from John Millington Synge
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
11 quotes from Horace Mann
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
33 thoughts from Thomas Huxley
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
14 views from Arthur Conan Doyle
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
6 more views from Mikhail Bakunin
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
33 other views from Thomas Huxley
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
9 quotes from Margaret Fuller
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
10 quotes from Novalis
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
45 more sayings from Bertrand Russell
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
46 sayings from John F. Kennedy
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
26 wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
24 other quotes from James A. Baldwin
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
14 other sayings from Arthur Conan Doyle
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
2 more views from John Jewel
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
2 more quotes from John Jewel
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
4 quotes from Albrecht Durer
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
3 more quotes from Jane Roberts
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
5 quotes from Dennis Potter
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 more quotes from John Cheever
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 other quotes from John Cheever
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
5 quotes from Brigham Young
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
2 quotes from Irving Howe
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
31 other quotes from Helen Keller
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
10 sayings from William Ralph Inge
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.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.
8 sayings from Stokely Carmichael
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
57 more sayings from Blaise Pascal
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
2 more quotes from Gustave Courbet
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
3 sayings from Richard Cobden
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
4 more thoughts from Matthew Simpson
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
7 thoughts from Walter Benjamin
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
115 more views from George Bernard Shaw
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
18 sayings from Marcel Proust
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.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
7 quotes from John Calvin
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
19 thoughts from Carl Jung
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
6 other quotes from Karl Popper
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
32 other thoughts from Henry Ford
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
31 more wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
3 more quotes from Mary McLeod Bethune
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
7 quotes from Claude Bernard
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
5 quotes from Richard King
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
2 quotes from Thomas Bulfinch
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
4 wisdom & wit from Jean Piaget
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
7 quotes from Marcus Garvey
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
10 other quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
15 quotes from John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
15 quotes from John Locke
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
8 thoughts from Jeremy Taylor
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
5 other quotes from Irving Babbitt
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
15 more sayings from John Locke
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
4 wisdom & wit from Jean Piaget
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
15 thoughts from John Locke
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
4 sayings from Jean Piaget
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
8 quotes from Maria Mitchell
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
5 wisdom & wit from Frances Wright
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
2 more wisdom & wit from Enrico Fermi
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
63 other thoughts from Samuel Johnson
Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.
13 quotes from Sydney J. Harris
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
23 wisdom & wit from T. S. Eliot
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
63 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
5 other sayings from Robert Staughton Lynd
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
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?
23 other views from T. S. Eliot
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
2 other wisdom & wit from Enrico Fermi
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
4 more quotes from Jeremy Collier
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
5 thoughts from Robert Staughton Lynd
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
5 more quotes from Charles Dudley Warner
These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
5 other quotes from Frances Wright
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
8 other quotes from W. Edwards Deming
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
2 other quotes from David Ben-Gurion
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
15 views from William Penn
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
103 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
13 more views from e. e. cummings
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
4 more views from Shinichi Suzuki
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
15 quotes from William Penn
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
18 more sayings from John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
18 quotes from John Adams
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
103 other views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
3 quotes from Alexander Alekhine
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
2 views from David Ben-Gurion
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
8 sayings from W. Edwards Deming
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
8 quotes from Frank Herbert
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
14 more quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
7 views from Joseph Wood Krutch
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
12 thoughts from William Cowper
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
25 quotes from Will Durant
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
22 views from Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
11 quotes from Bruce Lee
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
10 quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
25 sayings from Will Durant
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
25 other wisdom & wit from Will Durant
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
9 more quotes from Carl Sagan
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
14 more wisdom & wit from Laurence Sterne
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
32 sayings from William Blake
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
12 views from James Allen
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
8 quotes from William Shenstone
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
14 quotes from Wendell Phillips
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
2 other sayings from Richard Cecil
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
2 sayings from Roland Barthes
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
3 quotes from Sidney Hook
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
8 more quotes from Matthew Arnold
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
68 other views from Samuel Butler
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
2 quotes from Carlos Castenada
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
2 other quotes from Carlos Castaneda
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
3 wisdom & wit from Charles Babbage
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
11 quotes from Rebecca West
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
7 other views from Samuel Smiles
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
46 more sayings from George Santayana
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
7 more thoughts from Samuel Smiles
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
4 quotes from Louis Pasteur
Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
23 other quotes from Henry Miller
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
75 other thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
3 other quotes from Lillian Smith
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
56 other wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
6 quotes from Franz Grillparzer
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
12 other thoughts from Thomas a Kempis
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
2 quotes from Charles Morgan
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
12 views from Thomas a Kempis
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
13 sayings from Dante Alighieri
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
56 more views from Khalil Gibran
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
67 more views from Francis Bacon
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
17 sayings from Plutarch
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
16 more quotes from Isaac Asimov
Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
67 more sayings from Francis Bacon
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
6 wisdom & wit from Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
19 sayings from Anton Chekhov
Knowledge is power.
67 thoughts from Francis Bacon
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
21 quotes from Abu Bakr
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
12 other wisdom & wit from Ludwig van Beethoven
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
36 more quotes from Lord Byron
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
30 other quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
21 wisdom & wit from Abu Bakr
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
16 more quotes from Isaac Asimov
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
8 quotes from Ernest Holmes
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.
20 sayings from Thomas Aquinas
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
30 views from Charles Caleb Colton
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
21 more quotes from Abu Bakr
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
21 wisdom & wit from Abu Bakr
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
4 wisdom & wit from Abraham Joshua Heschel
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
45 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
2 other quotes from F. H. Bradley
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
2 wisdom & wit from Roger Bacon
If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
2 quotes from Karel Capek
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
3 other quotes from Francis Picabia
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
3 wisdom & wit from Ethel Watts Mumford
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner
You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
3 views from Zebulon Pike
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
6 more sayings from Franz Grillparzer