Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Knowledge
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Truth, Knowledge
We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne – Knowledge
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Lewis Carroll – Knowledge
Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Samuel Johnson – Weakness and knowledge
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson – Knowledge, Integrity
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Samuel Johnson – Knowledge
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund Freud – Knowledge, Religion
We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Alva Edison – Knowledge
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosom and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
William Hazlitt – Learning, Knowledge
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge
Goethe – History, Knowledge
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
Goethe – Despise knowledge in old age
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Goethe – Knowledge, Action
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
Goethe – Self Knowledge
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
