KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VIII

quotations about knowledge

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

PLATO

Protagoras


We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

On Certainty


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

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


Is not the fraction which you know, in relation to their totality, what a single number is to infinity?

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Seraphita

Tags: Honoré de Balzac


Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

speech to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790


Knowledge will soon become folly, when good sense ceases to be its guardian.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Our human knowledge is a candle burnt
On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

STEPHEN HAWKING

attributed, The Prism and the Rainbow


The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Emile


The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


A man who is ready to converse but has nothing to say worth hearing, is a well without water; he that is rich in knowledge but reserved is a well without a bucket.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

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If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

DAN BROWN

The Lost Symbol


To receive instruction and knowledge is as natural as to receive the light of the sun, if a man opens his eyes.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son


Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Knowledge shuts a man's mouth.

ERWIN SYLVANUS

Dr. Korczak and the Children