Knowledge Quotes

"To understand the social world is to understand human relations"

"Knowledge is power, but only if it is accompanied by wisdom"

"Memory is an instrument of great power and utility."

"The power of thought is the light that guides all human action."

"Knowledge without love becomes tyranny."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."

"The mind suffers by narrow thoughts and expands under great ones."

"The only way to escape from tradition is through understanding it."

"There is a divine beauty in learning, just as there is in a great strategy in war."

"The only knowledge worth having is that which teaches you how to live."

"Knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"There is no true knowledge except in knowing things."

"The most useful thing is knowledge."

"Knowledge is a weapon; use it responsibly."

"Freedom without knowledge is meaningless; knowledge without freedom is useless."

"Culture is the memory of a people."

"We have not received wisdom; we must discover it ourselves."

"To recover a forgotten language is to recover a lost part of ourselves."

"The question is not what is true but what is useful."

"The mind grows by what it feeds upon."

"Knowing oneself is not a luxury but a necessity."

"A man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thoughts."

"Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices."

"Experience makes us less confident in our judgments."

"I feel that I exist when I am conscious of my own consciousness."

"Knowledge is power and the power to silence dissent is control."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious."

"A woman's intelligence is her greatest asset and greatest threat to those who wish to control her."

"To understand another is to expand one's own consciousness."

"The worst readers are those who traverse the libraries as soldiers maraud through cities, taking up as plunder whatever happens to strike their fancy."