Knowledge Quotes

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

Speculation is not knowledge.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

Enough to know no knowing.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.

You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

It is amazing how much knowledge we have of hope. Whisper bravely into the dark, heart — whisper bravely.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

I know what I do not know.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Knowledge must come through action.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart.

If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.