Knowledge Quotes

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.