knowledge Quotes (25)

“It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.”

“The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

“A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.”

“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”

“Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.”

“We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.”

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

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

“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”

“Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.”

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

“The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.”

“It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“Reading merely provides the materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes them one's own.”

“Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting.”

“True knowledge provides the tools needed to navigate life.”

“Speaking is the domain of knowledge; listening is the privilege of wisdom.”

“To say you know when you know, and to say you do not know when you do not — that is the foundation of speech.”

“Knowledge is power.”