Knowledge Quotes

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous.