Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. – Robin Morgan
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. – Arthur Conan Doyle
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. – Arnold H. Glasow
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse. – Zhuangzi
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. – Ramakrishna
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. – Meister Eckhart
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. – G. I. Gurdjieff
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. – Baltasar Gracian
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. – John Archibald Wheeler
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann
Knowledge is the life of the mind. – Abu Bakr
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. – Will Durant
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. – David Bohm
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. – Ralph Cudworth
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. – Miguel de Cervantes
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. – Margaret Fuller
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. – Avicenna
