List Of 50 Knowledge Quotes That Will Inspire You to Success in Life:
#1 Daniel J. Boorstin
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
#2 Bram Stoker
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
#3 Alan Moore
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
#4 Veronica Roth
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
#5 Leonardo da Vinci
“The knowledge of all things is possible”
#6 Abu Bakr
”Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”
#7 Sigmund Freud
”The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
#8 Hippocrates
“There are in fact two things, science, and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
#9 Denis Diderot
”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.”
#10 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
#11 Confucius
”To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
#12 Aristotle
”The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
#13 George Bernard Shaw
”Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
#14 Yukio Mishima
”Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
#15 William Shakespeare
”Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
#16 Leo Buscaglia
”The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
#17 Charles Darwin
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
#18 Frank Herbert
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
#19 Will Durant
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
#20 Benjamin Franklin
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
#21 Robert Quillen
”Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
#22 Audre Lorde
“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
#23 Thomas Sowell
”It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
#24 Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
#25 Kurt Vonnegut
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
#26 Anais Nin
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
#27 Socrates
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
#28 John Locke
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
#29 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
”If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.”
#30 Friedrich Nietzsche
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
#31 Kofi Annan
”Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
#32 Lao Tzu
“To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
#33 James A. Forbes
”When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.”
#34 L. Frank Baum
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
#35 Albert Einstein
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
#36 Bruce Lee
”Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
#37 Ronald E. Osborn
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
#38 Audrey Hepburn
”For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
#39 John F. Kennedy
“The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.”
#40 Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
#41 Ramana Maharshi
”Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.”
#42 James Madison
”Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
#43 Napoleon Hill
“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
#44 Plato
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
#45 Criss Jami
“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
#46 Tom Waits
”We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.”
#47 Jay-Z
”I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.”
#48 Cardinal Richelieu
”To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”
#49 Terry Pratchett
”They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
#50 Edward Said
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation.”
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