The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. – Hermann Hesse
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. – Benjamin Disraeli
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. – Blaise Pascal
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. – Thomas Sowell
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. – Stephen Hawking
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James A. Baldwin
He that hath knowledge spareth his words. – Francis Bacon
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. – Friedrich August von Hayek
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. – Francis Bacon
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. – Thomas J. Watson
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. – Francis Bacon
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. – Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more. – William Cowper
