Quotes about knowledge
236 quotes from 164 people
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 31. Of Divine Ordinances (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 (full text, audio).
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 2 (24 March 1750)
Will Rogers1879–1935Nationally syndicated column number 90, From Nuts To The Soup (31 August 1924); published in The New York TimesEvery addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and OpinionsScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970A History of Western Philosophy (1945)Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Jean Baudrillard1929–2007“The Implosion of Meaning in the Media,” p. 79Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XIIIBeware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley1703–1791Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George EayrsIs there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Problems of Philosophy (1912)Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Education and the Significance of Life (1953)
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, i, 3