Knowledge Quotes

Wil Zeus

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and
Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Oscar Wilde

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Ashly Lorenzana

All we know is what we're told.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.. Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Maria Mitchell

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Simona Panova

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Michael Bassey Johnson

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

Kevin Awad

Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

John Stein

You don't know what you don't know

Nocturnus Libertus

Perfection is the enemy of greatness. We as people are limited in the knowledge and information we have, so to say one has reached all of the highest standards of what is known as the conventional consummation of human excellence means there is nothing more they would have to learn. This of course, is impossible, for there are always new things to learn, and so perfection is unachievable and unattainable.

Elbert Hubbard

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.. Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Allan Rufus

Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated along the way.

We become each and every piece within the game called life!

Kirstie Alley

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Eoin Colfer

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Howard Nemerov

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Gautama Buddha

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Rae Carson

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

Tiffany Madison

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

T.A. Miles

And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.

E.E. Cummings

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?
I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:
no man or woman on this big small earth.
How should our sages miss the mark of life,
and our most skillful players lose the game?
your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:
because all know, and no one understands.

Christine De Pizan

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

Guru Nanak

Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit.

Vera Nazarian

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Jefferson Smith

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

Edward Abbey

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics
Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.

George Eliot

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler;
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Lloyd Alexander

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

Marie De France

Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.

Ted Chiang

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Patricia Hampl

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Marguerite Yourcenar

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Aimee Carter

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

Wilkie Collins

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Jaree Francis

Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient.

Julie Kagawa

Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.

Hermann Hesse

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Dejan Stojanovic

Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory.

Peter F. Drucker

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

Anthony Burgess

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

Toba Beta

Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words, formulated by scholar
Ideas were found by the freethinker,
expressed by poet with the new words,
formulated by scholar into knowledge.

Marty Rubin

We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it.. Marty Rubin
We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it.

Dean Koontz

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Rebecca McNutt

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.

Shawn Achor

Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.

Plato

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.

Marty Rubin

Writing is discovering what you don't know.. Marty Rubin
Writing is discovering what you don't know.

Amit Kalantri

If you value your words, people will not ask you to make any promises.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself or condemn yourself. If your thoughts are depressingly running across your mind. You need to make adjustments and change your way of thinking.

John Daniel

As the natural world is one of the effects whose causes are in the spiritual world, and whose ends are in the Divine, it is impossible to understand the meaning of one link without having regard to the complete chain.

Lolly Daskal

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Lolly Daskal

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Lolly Daskal

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Enrico Fermi

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Alan Sheinwald

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

Sara Sheridan

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.

Patrick Lane

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

VicDo

Great knowledge, makes a great pain, in the world of pain.

Isabella Poretsis

You should never do everything for free because you won't be able to survive alone or in comfort. But you should never charge for everything or too much because neither will the people who are giving you the money.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What defines our world; believes, thoughts, dreams, decisions, choices and actions.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.

Chetan Bhagat

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

Ashly Lorenzana

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.. Michael Bassey
Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

Kahlil Gibran

What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

Molly Friedenfeld

If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.

Mike Rowe

Work hard AND smart.

Isabella Poretsis

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

Simon Blackburn

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

Alan G. Robinson

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Idries Shah

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

Juliet Daniel

Life without death simply isn't life, but death

Sachin Kumar Puli

Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there.

Idries Shah

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.. Idries
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Raheel Farooq

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Enrico Fermi

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

Meister Eckhart

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Ambrose Bierce

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Alan Moore

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Will Durant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Henry Rollins

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Craig Silvey

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

Vera Nazarian

Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence - a surprise.

Seneca

Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Diane Arbus

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Sigmund Freud

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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