Knowledge Quotes

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

human desires are the main cause of suffering

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the

May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?

All men by nature desire to know.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.

I take all knowledge to be my province.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

For knowledge too is itself a power.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.