Knowledge quotes
Welcome to our collection of Knowledge quotes! In this section, we have curated a diverse selection of quotes that celebrates the power and importance of knowledge in our lives. Knowledge is the key that unlocks the doors of understanding, enables personal growth, and empowers individuals and societies to progress.
Knowledge is more than just information; it is the result of curiosity, exploration, and the pursuit of truth. It encompasses wisdom, expertise, and insights gained through experience, study, and observation. The quotes in this category reflect the profound impact that knowledge can have on our lives, inspiring us to seek knowledge, expand our horizons, and embrace lifelong learning.
From famous philosophers and scholars to visionary leaders and inventors, these quotes capture the essence of knowledge as a transformative force. Whether it's about the wonders of science, the power of education, or the value of learning from our mistakes, each quote offers a unique perspective on the importance of knowledge and its ability to shape our world.
Whether you are a student, a lifelong learner, or simply someone who appreciates the pursuit of knowledge, we hope that these quotes will inspire and motivate you to continue seeking knowledge, expanding your understanding, and embracing the countless opportunities that knowledge brings.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorParadox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterDoubt is one of the names of intelligence.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorAmerican history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.
Antonio Machado
— PoetIt is good knowing that glasses are to drink from;
the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
Richard Holt Hutton
— Influential Victorian Writer & CriticNothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
Glenn Reynolds
— Law professorThat's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsAn editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
Paul Halmos
— Influential Mathematician & EducatorA clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestUnless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesReading is very good. And you can quote me!
Mary Ellen Chase
— New England's Literary VoiceOf all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerYou don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterI honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI really do know football.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostOur culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.
Craig Stone
— English footballerLies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.
Abraham Lincoln
— American PresidentThe things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorEven if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
Antonio Machado
— PoetAt the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestTechnical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesNegative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerKnowledge is not power unless it is used.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorOne of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTo be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestOne has not understood until one has forgotten it.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerI know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestPersonal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerYour workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterLike all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.