Knowledge quotations

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◆ The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

- Richard Cecil99

◆ To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

- Marilyn vos Savant99

◆ Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

- Abu Bakr99

◆ 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 Clancy99

◆ Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

- Leonardo da Vinci99

◆ Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

- John Adams99

◆ Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

- Robin Morgan99

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

- Plato99

◆ Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

- George Gurdjieff99

◆ He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

- Robert Staughton Lynd99

◆ Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

- T. S. Eliot99

◆ All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

- Leonardo da Vinci99

◆ 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 Montessori99

◆ If the wise knew everything the foolish know, there would be no fools.

- Vikrant Parsai99