Knowledge Quotes

"The man who thinks he knows everything knows nothing."

"In games of chance, the mathematicians possess an advantage that fortune cannot overcome."

"In the pursuit of knowledge, failure is merely tuition paid to experience."

"To seek knowledge without also seeking wisdom is to collect weapons without learning their proper use."

"The telescope and the microscope extend our sight but not our understanding; understanding requires wisdom."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."

"There are four classes of idols which beset the human mind."

"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it."

"The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions."

"The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections."

"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom."

"Knowledge is infinite, and we are but humble seekers."

"The art of printing will so spread knowledge that the struggle against ignorance will end in victory."

"The multiplication of books is a multiplication of the desire for knowledge."

"Through the press, the common man becomes a keeper of wisdom."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is mastery."

"Knowledge is infinite."

"The mind is the measure of all things."

"Knowledge is infinite, wisdom is finite."

"Knowledge itself is power."

"The tree of learning bears the fruit of wisdom."

"Knowledge without application is merely pretty decoration for the mind."

"A single person of understanding is a match for a hundred men without it."

"To question is to honor the divine gift of reason."

"Knowledge flows like rivers from the source of being."

"To study the masters is to stand on the shoulders of giants."

"The study of light is the study of life itself."

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, is true knowledge."

"The mind that questions is the mind that grows."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning."