Knowledge Quotes

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.

~ Duke Leto Atreides

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

~ Felix O. Hartmann

The natural order of life is not the thinking and imagination, but living in the moment, with absolute trust.

~ Roshan Sharma

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.

~ Abhijit Naskar

As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's where the trouble is. Now come on before you get us into a real mess.

~ Mildred D. Taylor

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.

~ Idries Shah

For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimately secret, and must then avenge itself for being secret.

~ Elias Canetti

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.

~ Douglas Adams

Takes long,Stings hard,Benefit's large.That's your experience in life. :)

~ Babu Rajan

The knowledge or information from different source can be misunderstood, unless you experience life, within. All the wisdom and bliss comes from within, and you can have, all the answers of life, when you look inside.

~ Roshan Sharma

Takes long,Stings hard,Benefit's large.And that's your experience in life :)

~ Babu Rajan

Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living- they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption.

~ Shawn Otto

The personal development triangle includes, knowledge Skills and Attitude. Knowledge is the foundation of all successes. the right skills will take us to great heights of accomplishment within a short period of time. But ultimately, the right attitude of faith, hope, commitment, patience, giving and determination will make anyone a super achiever.

~ Sesan Kareem

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with common and vulgar capacities, nor be very acceptable to the singular and excellent sort of men; the first would not understand them enough, and the last too much; and so they may hover in the middle region.

~ Michel De Montaigne

... Lyotard suggests that while discourse operates as a system of representation which defines meanings according to their relation to other concepts in that system, figure is the realm of the singular, of that which refuses to, or simply cannot, be captured and systematized by the concept.

~ Nicholas Gane

It is much more challenging to accept those who know a lot than those who know little.

~ Eraldo Banovac

So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?

~ Peter Wohlleben

I know ..you know .. Together, we know nothing.

~ Sudipto Zephyr Ghosh

Knowledge [savoir] in general cannot be reduced to science, nor even to learning [connaissance]. Learning is the set of statements which, to the exclusion of all other statements, denote or describe objects and may be declared true or false. Science is a subset of learning. It is also composed of denotative statements, but imposes two supplementary conditions on their acceptability: the objects to which they refer must be available for repeated access, in other words, they must be accessible in explicit conditions of observation; and it must be possible to decide whether or not a given statement pertains to the language judged relevant by the experts.

~ Jean-François Lyotard

It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.

~ John Steinbeck

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

~ Watchman Nee

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

~ Stewart Stafford

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.

~ Dele Ayo Bankole

The purpose of education should be character-building.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Never confuse belief with knowledge.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Knowledge is a mighty tool, but how it will affect a person is unpredictable.

~ Greg Mongrain

Before you start your full day of watching Equestrian Square Dancing, Soccer Balling, Hoop Dreaming, Cricket Batting, Rugby Punching, Volleyball Chopping, Skateboard Falling, Martial Arts Bowing, Bicycle Peddlers, and College Football Hecklers, maybe we have time to learn somethingScientifically.

~ James Hauenstein

It is one thing to believe and another to know.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it.

~ Munia Khan

Education is a relentless voyage of discovery.

~ Abhijit Naskar

...'By wisdom a house is built up,And by discernment it is made secure.By knowledge its rooms are filledWith all sorts of precious and pleasant treasures.'– Proverbs 24:3, 4

~ Jehovah

Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant—so that he constantly called different things by that name—but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of ‘pain’—in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge without understanding is a great loss because it is akin to having given a device without the manual on how to operate or use it.

~ Norhafsah Hamid

I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way—but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn’t exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

The power of knowledge is so great and forceful, if only we knew.

~ Norhafsah Hamid

The quality of knowledge youbring into the relationshipdetermines the quality of therelationship.

~ Dele Ayo Bankole

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.

~ Michel De Montaigne