Knowledge Quotes / Quotations

Knowledge Quotes Peter Abelard, quotes about Knowledge:
The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.more Peter Abelard quotes
Lord Acton, quotes about Knowledge:
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.more Lord Acton quotes
Lord Acton, quotes about Knowledge:
Learn as much by writing as by reading.more Lord Acton quotes
Abigail Adams, quotes about Knowledge:
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.more Abigail Adams quotes
Douglas Adams, quotes about Knowledge:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.more Douglas Adams quotes
Franklin P. Adams, quotes about Knowledge:
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.more Franklin P. Adams quotes
Franklin P. Adams, quotes about Knowledge:
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.more Franklin P. Adams quotes
Henry Brooks Adams, quotes about Knowledge:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.more Henry Brooks Adams quotes
John Adams, quotes about Knowledge:
A native American who cannot read or write is as rare an appearance...as a comet or an earthquake.more John Adams quotes
Samuel Adams, quotes about Knowledge:
A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.more Samuel Adams quotes
Aeschylus, quotes about Knowledge:
Time as he grows old teaches all things.more Aeschylus quotes
Woody Allen, quotes about Knowledge:
I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.more Woody Allen quotes
Lisa Alther, quotes about Knowledge:
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.more Lisa Alther quotes
American Library Association, quotes about Knowledge:
Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access of all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.more American Library Association quotes
American Library Association, quotes about Knowledge:
The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack… These actions apparently arise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals.more American Library Association quotes
American Library Association, quotes about Knowledge:
Why is Intellectual Freedom Important? Intellectual freedom is the basis of our democratic system. We expect our people to be self-governors. But to do so responsibly, our citizenry must be well informed. Libraries provide the ideas and information, in a variety of formats, to allow people to inform themselves.more American Library Association quotes
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, quotes about Knowledge:
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.more Marcus Aurelius Antoninus quotes
Saint Thomas Aquinas, quotes about Knowledge:
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.more Saint Thomas Aquinas quotes
Aristophanes, quotes about Knowledge:
The wise learn many things from their enemies.more Aristophanes quotes
Isaac Asimov, quotes about Knowledge:
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.more Isaac Asimov quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Knowledge:
Knowledge is power.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Knowledge:
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Knowledge:
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Knowledge:
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Roger Bacon, quotes about Knowledge:
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.more Roger Bacon quotes
Ben H. Bagdikian, quotes about Knowledge:
In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.more Ben H. Bagdikian quotes
Frederic Bastiat, quotes about Knowledge:
Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error. more Frederic Bastiat quotes
Frederic Bastiat, quotes about Knowledge:
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.more Frederic Bastiat quotes
Frederic Bastiat, quotes about Knowledge:
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.more Frederic Bastiat quotes
Cesare Beccaria, quotes about Knowledge:
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty... and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.more Cesare Beccaria quotes
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, quotes about Knowledge:
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.more Rev. Henry Ward Beecher quotes
Ezra Taft Benson, quotes about Knowledge:
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.more Ezra Taft Benson quotes
Ambrose Bierce, quotes about Knowledge:
Heathen, n. A benighten creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.more Ambrose Bierce quotes
Josh Billings, quotes about Knowledge:
The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.more Josh Billings quotes
Justice Hugo L. Black, quotes about Knowledge:
The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.more Justice Hugo L. Black quotes
Alan Bloom, quotes about Knowledge:
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.more Alan Bloom quotes
Daniel Boorstin, quotes about Knowledge:
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.more Daniel Boorstin quotes
Tom Braun, quotes about Knowledge:
If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.more Tom Braun quotes
Tom Braun, quotes about Knowledge:
There is no wisdom without knowledge.more Tom Braun quotes
Kingman Brewster, quotes about Knowledge:
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.more Kingman Brewster quotes
Jacob Bronowski, quotes about Knowledge:
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.more Jacob Bronowski quotes
Bellamy Brooks, quotes about Knowledge:
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.more Bellamy Brooks quotes
Buddha, quotes about Knowledge:
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.more Buddha quotes
Edmund Burke, quotes about Knowledge:
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.more Edmund Burke quotes
Edmund Burke, quotes about Knowledge:
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.more Edmund Burke quotes
Edmund Burke, quotes about Knowledge:
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.more Edmund Burke quotes
John Cage, quotes about Knowledge:
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.more John Cage quotes
Edmond Cahn, quotes about Knowledge:
The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state.more Edmond Cahn quotes
Albert Camus, quotes about Knowledge:
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.more Albert Camus quotes
G. R. Capp, quotes about Knowledge:
You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.more G. R. Capp quotes