Knowledge Quotes and Sayings
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.
Orison Swett Marden
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
G H Lewes
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J Watson
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Imannuel Kant
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois
I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.
George MacDonald
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?
Woody Allen
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.Deep thoughts indeed!
Ralph Cudworth
My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent.
Golda Meir
Our knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James Gibson
Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
Thomas Hood
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F Drucker
However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond.
William George Armstrong
That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
Benjamin Rush
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Raymond Aron
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban Berg
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.
Nicolas Copernicus
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
My mother called me after one of the first episodes of MTV’s Loveline and said, ‘So, when did you become so knowledgeable about oral sex?’
Catherine McCord
And the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
Petrarch
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Kong Fu Zi
Companies have to be wary of the fact that staff don’t move on too quickly these days else the requisite knowledge base required to manage enough elements may be lost.
Howard Gardner
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl Buck
The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy.
Franklin Buchanan
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one’s education. if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!
Fannie Farmer
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James
Without my knowledge or consent The Edge – made up of out-takes – was released. Even today, it remains a bitter memory.
Shelley Berman
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it, and as weak as its weakest link.
Lady Johnson