Top 455 Knowledge Quotes

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

Martin Seligman

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Havelock Ellis

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

Samantha Harvey

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

James L. Farmer Jr.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

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