Quotes on Knowledge

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.