42 Knowledge Quotes

  • The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

 

  • Knowledge is power. – Francis Bacon

 

  • Brains are better than brawn. – Unknown

 

  • When you’re sad, learn something. – Merlin

 

  • The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. – Charlie Munger

 

  • The shoe knows if the stocking has a hole. – Bahamian Proverb

 

  • Any fool can know. The point is to understand. – Albert Einstein

 

  • Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. – Samuel Johnson

 

  • Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. – Anton Chekhov

 

  • Distance lends enchantment to the view. – Thomas Campbell

 

  • Mistakes are doorways to discovery. – Unknown

 

  • I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. – Maya Angelou

 

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

 

  • Wise men learn by others’ harms; fools by their own. – Benjamin Franklin

 

  • With time even a bear can learn to dance. – Yiddish Proverb

 

  • What good is running when you’re on the wrong road. – German Proverb

 

  • Knowledge has a beginning but no end. – Geeta Iyengar

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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

 

  • Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running. – Benjamin Franklin

 

  • The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

 

  • A day of travelling will bring a basketfull of learning. – Vietnamese Proverb

 

  • Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. – Miles Kington

 

  • The more you know the less you understand. – Lao Tzu

 

  • When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come. – Chinese Proverb

 

  • Learning is better than house and land. – David Garrick

 

  • The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. – Anais Nin

 

  • Example is the best precept. – Aesop

 

  • People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. – Socrates

 

  • You can only be afraid of what you think you know. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

  • It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. – Spanish Proverb

 

  • Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

 

  • Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. – Mark Van Doren

 

  • Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. – Albert Einstein

 

  • Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. – Marcel Proust

 

  • Doubt is the key to knowledge. – Iranian Proverb

 

  • The end of all knowledge should be service to others. – Cesar Chavez

 

  • The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. – Malcolm Forbes

 

  • Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde

 

  • Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. – Will Durant

 

  • What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the natures of things. – Benjamin Franklin

 

  • It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox. – Japanese Proverb

 

  • The value of knowledge depends on what else you know. – David Perell