Knowledge Quotes

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

History, Past, Culture

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

Door, Open, Directly

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

God, Ignorance, Heaven

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius

Ignorance, Real, Extent

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

Truth, Mind, Nothing

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

Truth, Reason, Whatever

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

Love, Light, Vision

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

Money, Hope, Experience

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

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran

Great, Wisdom, Pain

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran

Nothing, Lies, Reveal

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cannot, Knowing

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil Gibran

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates

True, Nothing, Meaning

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Step, Dirty

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Human, Desire, Three

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

Food, Soul, Said

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.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

Learning, Ignorance, Greatest

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

Learning, Ignorant, Compared

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Ignorance, Opinion, Between

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Wisdom, Justice, Rather

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

Heart, Else, Everyone

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