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.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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