975 private quotes tagged knowledge

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

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“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” — Henry Ford

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“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

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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” — Henry Ford

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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.” — Plato

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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.” — Lao Tzu

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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot

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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.” — Plutarch

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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.” — William Penn

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“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.” — Samuel Johnson

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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.” — Plato

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