Knowledge Quotes

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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

- Booker T. Washington

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

- Robin Morgan

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

- Thomas H. Huxley

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form -- has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

- Dee Hock

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

- Leo Buscaglia

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

- Louis D. Brandeis

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

- Henry Brooks Adams

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

- Immanuel Kant

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

- Richard Feynman

And Joy is Everywhere;

It is in the Earth's green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;

- Rabindranath Tagore

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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Immanuel Kant

Information is not knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

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Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior,

- Martha Nussbaum

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

- Parker J. Palmer

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- George Santayana

The remark of the Emperor Julian, on the story of The Tree of Knowledge, is worth observing. "If," said he, "there ever had been, or could be, a Tree of Knowledge, instead of God forbidding man to eat thereof, it would be that of which he would order him to eat the most."

- Thomas Paine

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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

- Immanuel Kant