105 Best Knowledge Quotes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. - Proverbs 9:10

His wisdom was our guiding star.

First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? – Hannibal Lecter

Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling? Thrill me with your acumen. – Hannibal Lecter

Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way. – John Keating

Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty. A lot of people don't get that. – Rick

You know what prison is? A criminal's library. – Clay Morrow

I want to see and understand the world outside. I don't want to die without knowing what's out there. – Armin Arlert

To see something unseen, to know something unknown. That is the essence of science. – Mayuri Kurotsuchi

If you can't do something, then work hard so you can. If you don't know something, then study so you can learn. – Yami Sukehiro

Information, the source of all power. – Narrator

Now, watch closely. The truth of the world. – The Great Forest Spirit

The scroll contains the secret of the Devils of Kimon. It must not fall into the wrong hands. – Dakuan

I know everything. I'm the King's magician, Madam Suliman. – Madam Suliman

The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the lure.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. – Mustapha Mond

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. – Ishmael

The great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open. – Ishmael

Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. – Ahab to the sperm whale's head

There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing. – Guy Montag

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. – Faber

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. – Faber

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. – Beatty

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full with people running about with lit matches.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Winston Churchill

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. – Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience. – Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. – Abraham Lincoln

Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. – Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. – Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. – Leonardo da Vinci

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – Leonardo da Vinci

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others. – Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. – Leonardo da Vinci

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. – Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. – Leonardo da Vinci

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there. – Gandalf