Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth

Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers.

Image of Daniel Levitin
Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we've all made.
- Daniel Levitin
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Napoleon Hill
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Blaise Pascal
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Wilhelm Reich
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
- Wilhelm Reich
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Adam Grant
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
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Arnold Bennett
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
- Arnold Bennett
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Franz Kafka
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
- Franz Kafka
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Juvenal
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
- Juvenal
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Nicki Minaj
My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.
- Nicki Minaj
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Walter Lippmann
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Tony Orlando
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
- Tony Orlando
Collection: Knowledge
Image of W. Edwards Deming
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
- W. Edwards Deming
Collection: Knowledge
Image of John Coltrane
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
- John Coltrane
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Ben Carson
There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
- Ben Carson
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Ezra Miller
I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.
- Ezra Miller
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Henry Mayhew
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
- Henry Mayhew
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Thich Nhat Hanh
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Henry Miller
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
- Henry Miller
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Walter Gropius
Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
- Walter Gropius
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Sigmund Freud
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Sigmund Freud
Collection: Knowledge
Image of John C. Maxwell
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Rene Descartes
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
- Rene Descartes
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Martin H. Fischer
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin H. Fischer
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Zhuangzi
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
- Zhuangzi
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Tobey Maguire
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
- Tobey Maguire
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Pearl Bailey
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
- Pearl Bailey
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Tadao Ando
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
- Tadao Ando
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Stephen Hawking
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Michel de Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Michel de Montaigne
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Fela Kuti
Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.
- Fela Kuti
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Viktor E. Frankl
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Collection: Knowledge
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Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.
- KRS-One
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Khalil Gibran
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
- Khalil Gibran
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Joseph Wood Krutch
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Henry Giroux
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs.
- Henry Giroux
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Mary McLeod Bethune
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Marie Curie
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.
- Marie Curie
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Tobias Harris
We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don't have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.
- Tobias Harris
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Anne M. Mulcahy
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.
- Anne M. Mulcahy
Collection: Knowledge
Image of James Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin
Collection: Knowledge
Image of James Monroe
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
- James Monroe
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Terry Goodkind
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
- Terry Goodkind
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Herbert A. Simon
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
- Herbert A. Simon
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Benjamin Disraeli
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Georges St-Pierre
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
- Georges St-Pierre
Collection: Knowledge
Image of William Hazlitt
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- William Hazlitt
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Masayoshi Son
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
- Masayoshi Son
Collection: Knowledge