Knowledge Quotes Quotes

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Understanding how little we know is crucial to gaining knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble spirits. Enduring life honorably results in wisdom. Knowledge passed down from one generation to the next along with humankind's tradition of performing charitable and self-sacrificing deeds creates principled legacies for future generations to emulate.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.

~ Kay Whitley

Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance hides in darkness, wisdom hides in light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment.

~ Eraldo Banovac

In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of accumulating impressive amounts of knowledge within a relatively short period of time. Nevertheless, even the greatest genius possesses only a small fraction of all knowledge known by mankind. Finally, the following question arises: how large is all the existing knowledge in comparison to the space of ignorance?

~ Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge is NOT power. The correct application of knowledge is power.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

Passion for knowledge, motivation for continuous learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

In general, sharing and using things decreases their value. However, knowledge increases by implementation and especially by sharing among people.

~ Eraldo Banovac

I've tried to solve problems to the best of my knowledge. Many times I was successful, but sometimes I also failed. And now I finally understand – that's life.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn't know much.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Each type of knowledge has value; however, from an engineering point of view, practical knowledge seems to be more valuable than theoretical knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Acquiring knowledge is the most fruitful effort.

~ Eraldo Banovac

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

~ Abhijit Naskar

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of security encouraging an ignorant man to persevere in his efforts that can result in huge damage.

~ Eraldo Banovac

If you cannot solve a problem, ask someone who knows.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Don't be afraid to study hard: knowledge never exhausts the mind.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Only knowledge and truth may result in freedom of mind.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A deep consideration of the essence of knowledge should reveal how knowledge corresponds to the truth.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The dynamic nature of knowledge is reflected in human progress and technological achievements.

~ Eraldo Banovac