Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. (Joseph Addison, 1672-1719)

I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. (Alexander the Great, 356-323 b.c.)

Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon, 1561-1626)

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so. (Josh Billings, 1818-1885)

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful. (Chandler Burr, 1963)

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. (Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773)

No technical knowledge can outweigh knowledge of the humanities, in the gaining of which philosophy and history walk hand in hand. Our inheritance of well-founded slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principals of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries can bestow. (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds. (Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931)

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894)

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. (Henry C. Mencken, 1880-1956)

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything. (Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977)

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970)

I do not know that knowledge amounts to anything more definitive than a novel and grand surprise, or a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we had called knowledge before; an indefinite sense of the grandeur and glory of the universe. (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862)

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. (Kurt Vonnegut, 1922)

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