Knowledge

17 quotes.

• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Attributed to Jimi Hendrix

• Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

  Attributed to Albert Einstein

• To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

  Isaac Asimov

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

• In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.

  J. G. C. Minchin

• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

  Samuel Johnson

• Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

  Gene Wolfe

• Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

  Anonymous

• Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.

  Confucius

• The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

  Frank Herbert

• The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.

  Anonymous

• The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

  Richard Cecil

• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

  Anonymous

• Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

  Sid Taylor

• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  Karl Popper

• There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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