Knowledge Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge Quotes & Sayings

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With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continuously threatened with burial by the shifting sands. The hands of science must ever be at work in order that the marble column continue everlastingly to shine in the sun. To those serving hands mine also belong. - Albert Einstein



It is of great importance that the general public be given the opportunity to experience, consciously and intelligently, the efforts and results of scientific research. It is not sufficient that each result be taken up, elaborated, and applied by few specialists in the field. Restricting the body of knowledge to a small group deadens the philosophical spirit of a people and leads to spiritual poverty. - Albert Einstein



If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? - Maria Montessori



The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy



If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov



Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. - William Cowper



If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is there a man who has so much as to be out of danger? [On Elemental Instruction in Physiology] - Thomas Henry Huxley



Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. - John Ruskin



Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best. - Frank Zappa