Knowledge Quotes

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." Sir James Dewar

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." Daniel J. Boorstin

"Look at education as a continuous life long journey." Catherine Pulsifer

"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle." Robert Anthony

"Asking questions is one of the fundamental keys of learning. It is always better to ask a question than pretend you understand." Catherine Pulsifer

"Men learn while they teach." Seneca

"A man is but what he knows." Francis Bacon

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

"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it." Sudie Back

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison door." Victor Hugo

"You can lose your job, you can lose material items, but you can never lose your knowledge. The money we invest in ourselves to further increase our knowledge is truly an investment in our future." Catherine Pulsifer, from What Do You Feed Your Mind?

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk." Carl Gustav Jung

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement." Peter F. Drucker

"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse." African Proverb

"To teach is to learn twice." Joseph Joubert

"The mind grows by what it feeds on." J. G. Holland

"Our minds take in everything we read and listen to. Books we read, music we listen to, it all influences our lives." Catherine Pulsifer, from Dare 2 B U

"Continuous learning prepares you to take advantage of opportunities." Catherine Pulsifer

"The secret to self-confidence is to feed your mind with positive thoughts, and surround yourself with people who give you positive support!" Catherine Pulsifer, from What We Believe

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." George Bernard Shaw

"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." Martin H. Fischer

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler

"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance." Confucius

"The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." Caryl Haskins

"Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside.
We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him?
It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind;
the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind." Swami Vivekananda, Submitted by Uday

"Truth,
If in fact there exist 'Truth',
Then there is no such thing as 'Mystery'.
Only 'Knowledge' yet to be discovered!" Daniel B. Johnson Jr.

"Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly." Catherine Pulsifer

"If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day." Gandhi

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." Socrates

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." Will Durant

"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know." Anthony Robbins

"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

“Strange how much you’ve got to know before you know how little you know.” Author Unknown

"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power." Jeremy Taylor

"Teaching allows you to share your wealth while at the same time increasing your own wealth." Catherine Pulsifer

"Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another." Joseph Addison

"Information is not knowledge." Albert Einstein

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Malcolm S. Forbes

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery." James Joyce