Quotes about Knowledge
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
— Francois Rabelais
The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
— Jim Elliot
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
— Gordon Hinckley
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
— George Eliot
There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.
— Jim Rohn
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
— David O. McKay
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
— Cicero
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
— Samuel Johnson