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Francis Bacon3 quotes
For knowledge itself is a power whereby he knoweth. — Francis Bacon · 1605Knowledge...not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man’s estate. — Francis Bacon · 1605For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. — Francis Bacon · 1605Hermann Hesse2 quotes
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. — Hermann Hesse · 1922Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. — Hermann Hesse · 1922William Thomson, Lord Kelvin2 quotes
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · 1883When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · 1883Albert Einstein1 quote
Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein · 1929Alex Trebek1 quote
My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn’t bother me in the least. — Alex Trebek · 2020Alfred Tennyson1 quote
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Anatole France1 quote
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. — Anatole France · 1881Archilochus1 quote
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. — Archilochus · 600 BCAristotle1 quote
All men by nature desire to know. — Aristotle · 322 BCDemocritus1 quote
In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth. — Democritus · 240Donald Rumsfeld1 quote
As we know, there are known knowns-there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns-that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know. — Donald Rumsfeld · 2002Herodotus1 quote
The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing. — Herodotus · 430 BCJohn Adams1 quote
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. — John Adams · 1765John Ruskin1 quote
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. — John Ruskin · 1856Lao Tzu1 quote
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCLearned Hand1 quote
Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion. — Learned Hand · 1893Louanne Johnson1 quote
The mind is like a muscle, okay, and if you want it to be really powerful, you got to work it out. Ok? Each new fact gives you another choice. Each new idea builds another muscle, okay, and it’s those muscles that are going to make you really strong. Those are your weapons and in this unsafe world, I want to arm you...Look, okay, if at the end of the term, you’re not faster, stronger, and smarter, you will have lost nothing. But if you are, you’ll be that much tougher to knock down. — Louanne Johnson · 1995Moliere1 quote
Ah, it's a lovely thing, to know a thing or two. — Moliere · 1671Morpheus1 quote
You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus · 1999Seneca1 quote
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. — Seneca · 65Socrates1 quote
Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds-some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere... We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, the receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. — Socrates · 369 BCStanley Goodspeed1 quote
You're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know. — Stanley Goodspeed · 1996T.H. Huxley1 quote
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? — T.H. Huxley · 1877T.S. Eliot1 quote
Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information? — T.S. Eliot · 1934The Notorious B.I.G.1 quote
If you don't know, now you know. — The Notorious B.I.G. · 1994Thomas Hobbes1 quote
Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651William Shakespeare1 quote
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. — William Shakespeare · 1616