Knowledge Quotes

Bacon, Francis
If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.


Baruch, Bernard Mannes
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.


Bible
He that hath knowledge spareth his words. (Proverbs 17:27)


Blavatsky, H. P.
If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.


Bradley, F.H.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.


Hall, Joseph
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.


Hazlitt, William
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.


Heraclitus
Much learning does not teach understanding.


Herodotus
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.


Huxley, Thomas H.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?


Laertius, Diogenes
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.


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


Phillips, Wendell
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.


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


Stanhope, Philip D.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh


Unknown
Knowledge is not achieved until shared.


Yezirah, Sepher
Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear.