100+ Quotes About Knowledge | Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is information gained through experience or education. Which illuminates our lives by explaining the difference between right and wrong.

So to inspire you to acquire knowledge, share some ‘Knowledge Quotes’ from eminent wise men of the world.

Knowledge Quotes :

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”  ~Frederick Douglass

“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”  ~Abu Bakr

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”  ~George Gurdjieff

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”  ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.”  ~Ambrose Bierce

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”  ~Thomas Edison

“One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.”  ~Crates

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”  ~Avicenna

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“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”  ~Richard Cecil

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”  ~Epictetus

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”  ~Peter Drucker

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”  ~Carl Jung

“Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.”  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”  ~Michael Garrett Marino

“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”  ~Dale Carnegie

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Quotes About Knowledge :

• “The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”  ~Plato
• “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”  ~Kahlil Gibran
• “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”  ~Albert Einstein
• “Once you’ve accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you’re too old to remember it.”
• “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”  ~Anais Nin
• “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”  ~Confucius
• “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”  ~George Bernard Shaw
• “Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”  ~Immanuel Kant
• “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”  ~Socrates
• “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”  ~Frederick Douglass
• “When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”  ~Herbert Spencer
• “Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”  ~Louis L’amour
• “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”  ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerso

Knowledge Is Power Quote :

• “We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”  ~John Naisbitt
• “The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”  ~Arthur Miller
• “Some knowledge is too heavy…you cannot bear it…your Father will carry it until you are able.”  ~Corrie Ten Boom
• “Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”  ~Khalil Gibran
• “Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.”  ~Panchatantra
• “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”  ~Benjamin Spock
• “All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”  ~Leonardo Da Vinci
• “Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”  ~Wislawa Szymborska
• “Information is not knowledge.”  ~Albert Einstein
• “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”  ~Bertrand Russell
• “Selfknowledge is better than selfcontrol any day, Raquel said firmly. And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”  ~Claudia Gray
• “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”  ~Mark Twain
• “The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”  ~Herodotus
• “Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”  ~Robert Staughton Lynd
• “Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”  ~Horace Mann

Quotes About Wisdom And Knowledge :

• “Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”  ~Plato
• “Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”  ~Immanuel Kant
• “Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”  ~Khalil Gibran
• “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”  ~Marilyn Vos Savant
• “Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.”  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”  ~Charles Spurgeon
• “Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.”  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”  ~Immanuel Kant
• “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”  ~Marilyn Vos Savant
• “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”  ~Jimi Hendrix
• “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”  ~Laozi
• “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”  ~Kofi Annan
• “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”  ~Claire Fagin
• “We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.”  ~H.L. Mencken

Quotes On Knowledge :

• “Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”  ~Khalil Gibran
• “The knowledge of all things is possible.”  ~Leonardo Da Vinci
• “Knowledge is true opinion.”  ~Plato
• “Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.”  ~Zhuangzi
• “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”  ~Marilyn Vos Savant
• “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”  ~Isaac Asimov
• “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”  ~Susanne K. Langer
• “The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.”  ~Dean William R. Inge
• “Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
• “We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.”  ~Jack Lalanne
• “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”  ~John Locke
• “More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.”
• “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”  ~Socrates
• “Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.”  ~Pandurang S Athavale
• “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”  ~Marcus Garvey

Information And Knowledge Quotes :

• “In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.”  ~Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”  ~Abu Bakr
• “Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”  ~Khalil Gibran
• “The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”  ~Henry Ford
• “It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”  ~Wilbur Wright
• “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”  ~Cormac Mccarthy
• “Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”  ~Dante Alighieri
• “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”  ~Immanuel Kant
• “If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”  ~Thomas Henry Huxley
• “When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge.”  ~Confucius
• “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”  ~Alan Moore
• “The true method of knowledge is experiment.”  ~William Blake
• “We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”  ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• “No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”  ~John Locke
• “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”  ~Maria Mitchell

Education Knowledge Quotes :

• “One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.”  ~Chanakya
• “The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”  ~Plato
• “Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”  ~Hippocrates
• “Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.”  ~Pandurang S Athavale
• “The knowledge of all things is possible.”  ~Leonardo Da Vinci
• “We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.”  ~H.L. Mencken
• “Ignorance lies not in the things you don’t know, but in the things you know that ain’t so.”  ~Will Rogers
• “Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends, or cannot acquire knowledge.”  ~Chanakya
• “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”  ~Susanne K. Langer
• “The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”  ~William Ralph Inge
• “Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
• “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”  ~John Locke
• “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”  ~Aldous Huxley
• “Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”  ~Robert Staughton Lynd
• “All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”  ~Leonardo Da Vinci

Knowledge Quotes In English :

• “Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.”  ~Chanakya
• “Knowledge isnt power until it is applied.”  ~Dale Carnegie
• “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”  ~Confucius
• “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”  ~Claire Fagin
• “They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”  ~Terry Pratchett
• “All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”  ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”  ~Socrates
• “A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”  ~Michael Garrett Marino
• “One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.”  ~Crates
• “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”  ~Bertrand Russel
• “More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.”
• “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”  ~Carl Jung
• “We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”  ~Maria Mitchell
• “Knowledge is true opinion.”  ~Plato
• “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”  ~Frederick Douglass