Quotes about Knowledge

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.

Mark Twain

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Chuck Palahniuk

Examinations are formidable things, even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Caleb Colton

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

Man`s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Isaac Asimov

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Richard Dawkins

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

Henri Poincaré

Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land.

The Next Karate Kid (movie)

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Nicholas Murray Butler

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

There is only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance.

Socrates

The more civilized we become, the more relatively ignorant must each individual be of the facts on which the working of his civilization depends.

Friedrich Hayek