KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VIII

quotations about knowledge

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

speech to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790


The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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Seek knowledge from the purest source.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


Our human knowledge is a candle burnt
On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


The misapplication of our knowledge is, in general, more injurious to our happiness and interest, than either the privations of ignorance, or the disqualifications of inexperience.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930


What we know is built on what we do not know.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


You have to live to really know things.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

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All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom.

PLATO

Menexenus


The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive, and more often as a child: but knowledge has become of age; and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The less we know, the longer the explanation.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


To receive instruction and knowledge is as natural as to receive the light of the sun, if a man opens his eyes.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

ARISTOTLE

Prior Analytics

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The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men


Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

MICHIO KAKU

Hyperspace


When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts