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Knowledge Quotes

Most people seem to agree that obtaining cold data and information are not the same as obtaining knowledge. Anyone can obtain facts and figures. Anyone can read about a subject in an encyclopedia. Well, nowadays people are reading about subjects on Wikipedia. But nonetheless, facts and information are everywhere. The trick is taking it all in and turning it into knowledge.

As these quotes show, attitudes surrounding knowledge are extremely varied. Knowledge is everything. Knowledge is power. Except when it’s not.

Knowledge Quotes

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

– Clifford Stoll

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

– Thomas H. Huxley

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

– Thomas Jefferson

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

– Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

– Peter Drucker

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

– Plato

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

– Chip & Dan Heath, Authors of Made to Stick, Switch

The only source of knowledge is experience.

– Albert Einstein

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

– Isaac Asimov

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

– Albert Einstein

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

– Rutherford D. Rogers

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

– T. S. Eliot

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