Knowledge Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

131 Knowledge Quotes
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
Juvenal Quotes
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
Aristotle Quotes
“To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
Plato Quotes
“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”
Lao Tzu Quotes
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
Copernicus Quotes
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“Skill to do comes of doing”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“I'm not young enough to know everything”
James Matthew Barrie Quotes
“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it”
Charles F. Kettering Quotes
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
Robert Quillen Quotes
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
Thomas Berger Quotes
“There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: rendering of an Arab proverb
“Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: in the "Guardian", no. 111, Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
“Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, Is but to know my ignorance at last, Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools.”
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling Quotes
Source: Recreation with the Muses (London, fol. 1637, p. 7)
“Knowledge is power.”
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling Quotes
Source: Recreation with the Muses (London, fol. 1637, p. 7)
“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. I)
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Aphorism III
“Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Rendering of I Cor. VIII (I)
“For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Treatise--De Hoeresiis
“But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Daniel (ch. XII, v. 4)
“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 18)
“He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 27)