Famous Quotes About knowledge

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

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

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.