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Do you need knowledge to create? Unfortunately, creation of the new
does not come out of nothing, although too much knowledge can be as big a
block as too little. Knowledge is a drug which gives us little until we
use it. And the best use is knowledge is in the creation of new knowledge.
See also
curiosity, education, on experts*, exploration, learning*, science, truth*
Quotes
‘All men by nature desire knowledge.’
— Aristotle
‘Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.’
— Aristotle
‘Scientific apparatus offers a
window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more
time washing the windows.’
— Isaac Asimov
‘Knowledge itself is power.’
— Francis Bacon
‘It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.’
— Chester Barnard
‘I am not young enough to know everything.’
— James M. Barrie
‘It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.’
— Josh Billings
‘You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.’
— William Blake
‘The true method of knowledge is experiment.’
— William Blake
‘The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of
knowledge.’
— Daniel J. Boorstin
‘That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for
knowledge, this I call a tragedy.’
— Thomas Carlyle
‘A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what
he is not saying.’
— G. K. Chesterton
‘When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a
thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.’
— Confucius
‘To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one
doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.’
— Confucius
‘The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to
confess your ignorance.’
— Confucius
‘Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other
men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.’
— William Cowper
‘All true knowledge contradicts common sense.’
— Mandell Creighton
‘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
‘Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating,
ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their
thoughts weak.’
— Clarence Day
‘Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert
that this or that problem will never be solved by science.’
— Charles Darwin
‘To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.’
— Benjamin Disraeli
‘Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.’
— Will Durant
‘Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of
Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.’
— Albert Einstein
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting
itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant
beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive
forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the centre of true religiousness. In
this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly
religious men.’
— Albert Einstein
‘The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Information is not knowledge.’
— Albert Einstein
‘We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of
schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.’
— Albert Einstein
‘As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of
darkness surrounding it.’
— Albert Einstein
‘The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is
inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?’
— T. S. Eliot
‘Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human
knowledge and happiness.’
— Morris Leopold Ernst
‘An education isn't how much you have committed to
memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do
know and what you don't.’
— Anatole France
‘To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.’
— Anatole France
‘Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.’
— Kahlil Gibran
‘A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge
that is idle.’
— Kahlil Gibran
‘And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless
knowledge?’
— Kahlil Gibran
‘Belief is not the beginning of
knowledge — it is the end.’
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough we must do.’
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.’
— Arthur Guiterman
‘The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of
all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or,
which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.’
— William Hazlitt
‘Zeal will do more than knowledge.’
— William Hazlitt
‘The majority of people have no
understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when
instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves
they seem to have.’
— Heraclitus
‘The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.’
— Frank Herbert
‘This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but
no power.’
— Herodotus
‘It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the
privilege of wisdom to listen.’
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
‘To know all things is not permitted.’
— Horace
‘Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection
of authority.’
— Thomas Huxley
‘If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to
be out of danger?’
— Thomas Huxley
‘Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.’
— Immanuel Kant
‘The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.’
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
‘What feeling, knowledge or will man has depends in the last resort upon what
imagination he has.’
— Søren Kierkegaard
‘We live in an excessively conscious age; we know so much, we feel so
little.’
— D. H. Lawrence
‘No man's knowledge here can go beyond his
experience.’
— John Locke
‘We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we
cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.’
— Michel de Montaigne
‘To know one thing, you must know the opposite just as much, else you don’t
know that one thing.’
— Henry Moore
‘The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite.’
— Henry Miller
‘Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise:
so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.’
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
‘Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or
instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third,
intuition.’
— Plotinus
‘What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.’
— Bertrand Russell
‘Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.’
— Lucius Seneca
‘Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.’
— William Shakespeare
‘The larger the island of knowledge, the greater the shoreline of wonder.’
— Ralph Sockman
‘There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.’
— Socrates
‘One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.’
— Socrates
‘Your knowledge has limits but your
imagination does not.’
— Geraint Straker
‘It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.’
— W. Somerset Maugham
‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.’
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
‘For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful
thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real
unerringness.’
— Mark Twain
‘The trouble with the world is not that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.’
— Mark Twain
‘To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not
know is a disease.’
— Lao Tzu
‘He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.’
— Lao Tzu
‘Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without
imagination.’
— William Arthur Ward
‘In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up
in principles.’
— Alfred North Whitehead
‘Education is an admirable thing, but it is as well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.’
— Oscar Wilde
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