Quotes About Knowledge | QuotePlace

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Knowledge has three degrees — opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

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

Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.