Knowledge Quotes

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.

What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!

If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.