Quotes on Knowledge

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.