Knowledge Quotes

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Knowledge is power.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.