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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud



Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e. e. cummings




The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. Immanuel Kant




And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can’t be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge. Karel Capek


It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. Havelock Ellis



Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it’s irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look. Conrad Burns




Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. Ray Bradbury


Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them. Cesare Beccaria

Whoever claims that economic competition represents ‘survival of the fittest’ in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. George Reisman



It’s not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that’s where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It’s not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music. Neil Peart


king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing. Baha’u’llah


In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That’s how political terror succeeds. Mimi Kennedy


The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be. Michael Leunig

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. Alan Bennett


Knowledge is more important than life. We’ve only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. Charles Lederer

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. Derek Bok


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Paul Davies



Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. Robert Staughton Lynd

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov


True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates


Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter Drucker

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. Jean Piaget



Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. David Hume


Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. Thucydides



Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. Abraham Joshua Heschel




I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. Immanuel Kant

Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller


