„Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.“

— Michel Foucault

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„Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.“
— Agatha Christie
„The idea in anything is to use your technical knowledge, wisdom and love of the game to cut the odds down, to lower the risk.“
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
„Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.“
— Bruce Lee
„Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.“
— Confucius
„Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.“
— Charles Spurgeon
„There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.“
— Fernando Pessoa