15 Movie Quotes about Knowledge
Knowledge is power
Scientia potentia est, or, “knowledge is power” is a Latin aphorism most commonly attributed to 16th-century philosopher Francis Bacon. This phrase has existed in various versions across cultures and across times. It’s one of those things you know is true, but you still might think it's corny. Knowledge gives us the ability to survive and thrive in the world. This is freedom, and you can’t have real power without freedom. Never stop learning, and remember to use your powers for good because with great power comes great responsibility. Here are our best movie quotes about knowledge.
From the TV Series: The Sopranos
“Keep thinking you know everything. Some people are so far behind in a race that they actually think they’re leading.”
Dominic Chianese - Junior Soprano
From the TV Series: Criminal Minds
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein
Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon
From the TV Series: The Walking Dead
“Sucks, don't it? The moment you realize you don't know shit.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Negan
From the TV Series: Grey's Anatomy
“Knowing is better than wondering. Waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.”
Ellen Pompeo - Dr. Meredith Grey
From the animation: Avatar: The Last Airbender
“The way of the sword doesn’t belong to any one nation. Knowledge of the arts belongs to us all.”
Robert Patrick - Piandao
From the animation: Avatar: The Last Airbender
“It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.”
Mako - Uncle
From the TV Series: Sex Education
“Knowledge is power, power is status and status means popular.”
Ncuti Gatwa - Eric Effiong
From the movie: The Seventh Seal
“- Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.
- Death: But He remains silent.
- Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.
- Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block
Bengt Ekerot - Death
From the movie: The Thing from Another World
“Knowledge is more important than life, Captain. We've only one excuse for existing - to think, to find out, to learn.”
Robert Cornthwaite - Dr. Arthur Carrington
From the movie: Battle for the Planet of the Apes
“All knowledge is for good. Only the use to which you put it can be good or evil.”
Paul Williams - Virgil
From the movie: In The Heart Of The Sea
“The unknown. That is where my imagination yearns to venture. And so the question plagues me still: How does a man come to know the unknowable?”
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville
From the movie: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
“The bittersweet pain among men is having knowledge with no power.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Lex Luthor
From the movie: The Circle
“Knowing is good, but knowing everything is better.”
Tom Hanks - Bailey
From the movie: Krull
“He who seeks the knowledge must lead me. No one else may approach.”
John Welsh - Seer
From the movie: Charlie Chan in Panama
“Patience leads to knowledge.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan
