The quote “Knowledge is power”, is such a great quote to use in all aspects of life. Knowledge is the main reason why science and technology have advanced greatly as years pass by. It has remained to be useful in the past up to the present. It pushes us, as human beings, to perform beyond our natural capabilities. Knowledge is the main and most important factor that differentiate humans from animals. Who do you think will you become if you didn’t have knowledge? You surely wouldn’t be here, reading this article, if you weren’t knowledgeable enough about the world and everything that’s in it. A person who has knowledge about anything can have the power to conquer the world.
If you’re knowledgeable, you will be able to judge situations in a fair manner. You will recognize the difference between good and bad, and you will achieve the goals you set for yourself in this life. Having knowledge also means lifelong learnings. A child who just got into school may learn a lot from his teachers, but his knowledge is not only limited to the four corners of the classroom. That certain child will grow up absorbing every single lesson he will encounter along his journey. Knowledge is always new and fresh so you should take advantage of it. Whether you’re trying to excel in your chosen field or building a career, always seek knowledge and use it in every step you make.
We collected a bunch of knowledge quotes for you to read and keep. Write them in your journal or print it and post on your wall. Make these quotes remind you how important knowledge is because it will absolutely benefit you in the end!
Knowledge Quotes
1. Education is the manifestation and evolution of the knowledge that is already inherent within you. – Abhijit Naskar
2. The real joy is knowing the depth of your sin; for in the depth of this knowledge, you will find freedom from you and love from Christ in you. – John M Sheehan
3. Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom. – Abhijit Naskar
4. Never confuse belief with knowledge. – Abhijit Naskar
5. The flow of knowledge towards the mind should be moderated by the faculties of the mind itself, based on the acceptability of nothing but the mind. – Abhijit Naskar
Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water’s surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don’t know everything. – Stewart Stafford
6. Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge. – Abhijit Naskar
7. Knowledge and education are the major weapons of liberation from oppressions. – Stephen Magnus
8. No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise. – Abhijit Naskar
9. If you want the answer, ask the question. – Lorii Myers
10. Wrote my way out of the hood…thought my way out of poverty! Don’t tell me that knowledge isn’t power. Education changes everything. – Brandi L. Bates
11. Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it. – Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
12. The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things. – Plutarch
13. They don’t need to be no rocket scientist, but knowing the difference between “their”, “there”, and “they’re” might be a great start. – Bob N. Boguslavski
14. We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others. – Israelmore Ayivor
15. Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain, it decays and disappears. – J.D. Bernal
16. To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. – Lao Tzu
17. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do. – Christopher Pike
18. Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful. – Rob Liano
19. If knowledge is not put into practice, it does not benefit one. – Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
20. Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom, and that is the ultimate virtue. – Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
21. Do question, even the basics! You will be a fool for once! If you don’t, you will be, for a lifetime. – Himmilicious
22. Knowledge and understanding mixed with one’s convictions of ‘experience’ is hardly impositional. – R. Alan Woods
23. Knowledge’s surest logic is the lack of knowledge. – Sorin Cerin
24. There isn’t a God more real and truer than the God of your knowledge. – Sorin Cerin
25. Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness! – Monique Rockliffe
26. If you don’t synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare parts catalogs for machines that are never built. – Arthur R. Marshall
27. What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life’s emptiness wind than the knowledge? – Sorin Cerin
28. The highest knowledge, knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. – Lailah Gifty Akita
29. Knowledge is power. – Francis Bacon
30. And you think journeying abroad will give you this knowledge you crave? I think it will contribute to my understanding of the world, of people. More so than say, the old lady who has lived in the same house her entire life, who has borne children both alive and dead? Who tends her soil; who sees the sunshine and the rainfall over the land, winter, spring, summer, and autumn? What might you say to the idea that we all have a capacity for wisdom, just as a jug has room for a finite amount of water-pouring more water in the jug doesn’t increase that capacity.
– Jacqueline Winspear
31. The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do. – DeWayne Owens
32. The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge. – Abhijit Naskar
33. When thinking is overrated, and friends are easy to make, check if it’s too complicated knowing yourself somehow. Inner peace isn’t hard to take, never lost or underestimated. Get out of social media. Now. – Ana Claudia Antunes
34. The whole ‘know thyself thing isn’t a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. ‘Know thyself’ isn’t a goal; it’s a road. – Garon Whited
35. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. – Suzy Kassem
36. Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge acquired through those experiences. – Ken Poirot
37. The only way to know is to learn, relearn and unlearn. – Lailah Gifty Akita
38. Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few. – Moutasem Algharati
39. There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience, and patience. – Eraldo Banovac
40. The river of knowledge has no depth. – Chinonye J. Chidolue
41. Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness. – Edgar Maass
42. If knowing something got you where you needed to go, you’d be there already. Put your hand to your heart, take a deep breath in…listen to your heart. It knows. – Eileen Anglin
43. Lover of books, lover of knowledge. – Lailah Gifty Akita
44. For knowledge, you should read books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it. – Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
45. You need just what you do not know, and what you really know is worthless.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46. Ignorance kills more humans than guns ever could. – Pasha Cook
47. No knowledge comes to you late. It comes just at the time when you are ready for it. – Manoj Arora
48. Research; the quest for in-depth knowledge and wisdom. – Lailah Gifty Akita
49. A prior knowledge or justification is independent of experience. – Pushkar Saraf
50. Love and seek for knowledge. – Lailah Gifty Akita
51. Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely. – Carew Papritz
52. “I know, you know that I know, and I know that you know that I know,” we are a very knowledgeable family. But, the line might have been more true if we just said, “I don’t know, you don’t know, I don’t know what you know, and you don’t know what I know.” and we are all just making stuff up all the time pretending to be knowledgeable, it’s what our family does. – Lyssa Danehy deHart
53. Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us. – Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
54. We all have that divine moment when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth. – Lailah Gifty Akita
55. Knowledge is the comprehensive embodiment of imagination that surfaces in observation and finally ripens through the reinforcement of experience thereby inculcating knowledge. This, in fact, is the short story of life. – Q.M. Sidd
56. Lack of success can be attributed to one of two things: You don’t know what to do, or you know what to do and you’re not doing it. – Rob Liano
57. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin
58. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein
59. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey
60. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn
61. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan
62. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee
63. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. – Shakuntala Devi
64. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. – William S. Burroughs
66. Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place, that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
67. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
68. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein
69. The only source of knowledge is experience. – Albert Einstein
70. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. – Plato
71. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. – Warren Buffett
72. We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness. – Petra Nemcova
73. Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. – John Adams
74. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. – Augustus Hare
75. The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. – David Bailey
76. The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. – Leo Buscaglia
77. Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. – Robert Quillen
78. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt
79. I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from. – Shakira
80. Research is creating new knowledge. – Neil Armstrong
81. When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. – James A. Forbes
82. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. – Jimi Hendrix
83. The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn. – Adam Grant
84. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant
85. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin
86. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. – Isaac Asimov
87. It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. – Wilbur Wright
88. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. – William Shakespeare
89. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. – Aristotle
90. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. – Louis Pasteur
91. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. – Herbert Spencer
92. 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. – Nicolaus Copernicus
93. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. – Thomas Aquinas
94. Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can’t be innocent forever, but there’s something in innocence you need to regain to be creative. – Albert Hammond, Jr.
95. Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. – Khalil Gibran
96. The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. – Tom Clancy
97. Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue. – Sally Ride
98. The end of all knowledge should be service to others. – Cesar Chavez
99. There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance. – Buddha
100. In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. – Xunzi
101. Share your knowledge.It’s a way to achieve immortality. – Dalai Lama
102. It is good to rub, and polish our brain against that of others. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
103. We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. – Charles Caleb Colton
104. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. – Carl Jung
105. All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections. – Arthur C. Aufderheide
106. We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt
107. In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.
– Joseph L. Badaracco
108. If you aren’t sharing knowledge, you are no different from the guy who files false workers’ compensation insurance claims. – Jack Vinson
109. Sharing knowledge can seem like a burden to some, but on the contrary, it is a reflection of teamwork and leadership.
110. He who undertakes to be his own teacher, has a fool for a pupil. – German proverb
111. In teaching others, we teach ourselves. – Traditional Proverb
112. The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
113. Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse. – Nigerian Proverb
114. It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it. – Persian Proverb
115. The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so. – Mark Twain
116. ‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant’. – John Abbott
117. The more a man knows, the more he forgives. – Catherine the Great
118. The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. – John Adams
119. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. – Malcolm X
120. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin
121. Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. – Robert Anthony
122. All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. – Immanuel Kant
123. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. – John F. Kennedy
124. I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us. – Dave Ramsey
125. The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. – Sigmund Freud
126. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. – Mao Zedong
127. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. – Leonardo da Vinci
128. Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge. – Lao Tzu
129. Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
130. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. – Peter Drucker
131. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin
132. There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. – George Washington
133. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying. – Ben Carson
134. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. – Plato
135. Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. – Nikola Tesla
136. Let’s face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible. – Chuck Norris
137. 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
138. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. – Terry Pratchett
139. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. – Brian O’Driscoll
140. The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. – Anais Nin
141. We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. – Thomas Aquinas
142. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them. – Criss Jami, Killosophy
143. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. – Wilhelm Reich
144. Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects. – Will Rogers
145. Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of security encouraging an ignorant man to persevere in his efforts that can result in huge damage. – Eraldo Banovac
146. Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them. – Eraldo Banovac
147. People perish not because of lack of faith; they perish because of lack of knowledge! Know yourself. – Israelmore Ayivor
148. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant
149. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. – Benjamin Franklin
150. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. – Confucius
151. The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. – Thomas Berger
152. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. – Carl Sagan
153. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. – Henry David Thoreau
154. Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Princess Diana
155. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw
156. It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. – Thomas Sowell
