“Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none.”
Zhuangzi
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Knowledge Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge Quotes
Read the best knowledge quotes on learning, wisdom and curiosity from Lao Tzu, Zhuangzi, Kant, Thiruvalluvar, Saadi, Pasteur, the Upanishads and more.
“I have taken all knowledge to be my province.”
Francis Bacon
AmbitionLearning
“Knowledge is power, knowledge is safety, knowledge is happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson
PowerHappiness
“He who devotes himself to learning seeks from day to day to increase his knowledge; he who devotes himself to the Tao seeks from day to day to diminish his doing.”
Lao Tzu
LearningSimplicity
“All learning is but recollection.”
Plato
LearningPhilosophy
“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”
Aristotle
UnderstandingDepth
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
Aristotle
PracticeExperience
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.”
Immanuel Kant
ReasonPhilosophy
“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.”
Thomas Aquinas
ExperiencePhilosophy
“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”
Thomas Hobbes
CuriosityMind
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
Leonardo da Vinci
WisdomExperience
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IgnoranceHistory
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
Samuel Johnson
CuriosityLearning
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Open MindThinking
“Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HumilityMystery
“Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
Henry David Thoreau
InsightInspiration
“Science is organized knowledge.”
Herbert Spencer
ScienceShort Quotes
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
MindSherlock Holmes
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
Louis Pasteur
ScienceHumanity
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie
UnderstandingFear
“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is love.”
Bernard of Clairvaux
PurposeService
“Culture is getting to know the best which has been thought and said in the world.”
Matthew Arnold
CultureLearning
“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
Benjamin Disraeli
SuccessInformation
“Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practise it resembles him who ploughs his land and leaves it unsown.”
Saadi
PracticeAction
“A scholar without diligence is a lover without money.”
Saadi
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About Knowledge Quotes
Knowledge is one of the few treasures that grows when you share it and can never be stolen. It opens doors, solves problems and helps us understand the world and ourselves. Yet the wisest thinkers also remind us that knowledge alone isn't enough: it must be practised, shared with humility and joined with wisdom.
This collection brings together 200 of the best knowledge quotes from Lao Tzu, Zhuangzi, Immanuel Kant, Thiruvalluvar, Saadi, Louis Pasteur, the Upanishads and many more. Some celebrate learning, some warn against pride, and all of them will make you want to keep learning. For more on smart thinking, explore our [Intelligence Quotes](/topics/intelligence-quotes).
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Knowledge quotes.
What is a famous quote about knowledge?
Zhuangzi said, "Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none." Thomas Jefferson added, "Knowledge is power, knowledge is safety, knowledge is happiness."
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Leonardo da Vinci called wisdom "the daughter of experience." Knowledge is knowing facts; wisdom is knowing how to use them well.
Why is practising knowledge important?
The Persian poet Saadi said that knowledge without practice is like ploughing land and leaving it unsown. A Chinese proverb agrees: "Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."
What does the Thirukkural say about knowledge?
Thiruvalluvar wrote that "ears not pierced by learning, though they can hear, are deaf," and that a learned person of humble birth ranks above an unlearned person of noble birth.
What is the right reason to seek knowledge?
Bernard of Clairvaux said that seeking knowledge to show off is vanity, but seeking knowledge "in order to serve; that is love."
What are good short knowledge quotes?
Try "Science is organized knowledge," "Wisdom is the daughter of experience," "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave," or "All learning is but recollection."