Top 40 Knowledge Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

— Anton Chekhov

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2. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

— Marilyn Vos Savant

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3. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

— Albert Einstein

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4. “When you know better you do better.”

— Maya Angelou

5. “Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”

— Ram Dass

6. “The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”

— John Locke

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7. “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

8. “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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9. “Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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10. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

— Immanuel Kant

11. “Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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12. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”

— Thomas Carlyle

13. “Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

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14. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller

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15. “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

— Khalil Gibran

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16. “Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.”

— Will Durant

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17. “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

— Carl Sagan

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18. “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.”

— Galileo Galilei

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19. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

— Albert Einstein

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20. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

— Isaac Asimov

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21. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

22. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

23. “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

— Miles Kington

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24. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

— Albert Einstein

25. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

— Confucius

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26. “Information is not knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

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27. “There is no substitute for knowledge.”

— W. Edwards Deming

28. “If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

— Henry Ford

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29. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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30. “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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31. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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32. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

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33. “You have to know the past to understand the present.”

— Carl Sagan

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34. “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

— William Blake

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35. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

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36. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— John Locke

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37. “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

— Epictetus

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38. “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

— Laurence Sterne

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39. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

— Alexander Pope

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40. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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41. “Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.”

— Robert Boyce

42. “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”

— Charlie Munger

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43. “I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”

— Charlie Munger

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