Knowledge Quotes

“The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.”

“Knowledge is not what you know but what you can do with what you know.”

“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“For to what purpose should a man be a great master of numbers, if he knows not how to apply them to his use?”

“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.”

“All information is surprise.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“The case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable ignorance of all of us.”

“The ways by which men arrive at knowledge of the celestial things are hardly less wonderful than the nature of these things themselves.”

“Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.”

“Correct.”

“The market process is a discovery process.”

“Insight must precede application.”

“If you can't - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more about less and less.”

“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”