Knowledge Quotes

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

~ Plato

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no placein the endeavor of science.

~ Carl Sagan

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a statesman versed in the policy of European courts. To the eyes of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for one of those cosmopolitans, curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical, who move incessantly from place to place, and are of no country.

~ Jules Verne

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

~ Idries Shah

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

~ Idries Shah

[To admit that college isn't for everyone] may sound élitist. It may even sound philistine, since the purpose of a liberal-arts education is to produce well-rounded citizens rather than productive workers. But perhaps it is more foolishly élitist to think that going to school until age 22 is necessary to being well-rounded, or to tell millions of young adults that their futures depend on performing a task that only a minority of them can actually accomplish.It is absurd that people have to get college degrees to be considered for good jobs in hotel management or accounting — or journalism. It is inefficient, both because it wastes a lot of money and because it locks people who would have done good work out of some jobs. The tight connection between college degrees and economic success may be a nearly unquestioned part of our social order. Future generations may look back and shudder at the cruelty of it.

~ Ramesh Ponnuru

The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith.

~ Mark Hodder

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Knowing Psalm 23 is different from knowing the shepherd.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Where should one turn for guidance in an appraisal of of the essence of justice, morality, ethics, religion, science, literaturem, and the like? Not to the past, for history is willfully misinterpreted; and not to the church, which is ineffective because of the cowardice of its leaders. Even science cannot be helpful beccause its exponents have succeeded only in destroying the harmony of life. It is therefore the duty of literature to rediscover the truth and beauty of life that other means have failed to find.

~ Hymen Chonon Berkowitz

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.

~ Alex Stein

Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?

~ James Jean-Pierre

How much does it cost to treat leprosy? One $3 dose of antibiotic will cure a mild case; a $20 regimen of three antibiotics will cure a more severe case. The World Health Organization even provides the drugs free,but India‘s health care infrastructure is not good enough to identify the afflicted and get them themedicine they need.So, more than 100,000 people in India are horribly disfigured by a disease that costs $3 to cure.That is what it means to have a per capita GDP of $2,900.

~ Charles Wheelan

In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is to know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of nowhere, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading--and then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates, and no matter how often I reread the same lines, they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading...

~ Muriel Barbery

The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.

~ Murad S. Shah

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

~ Roger Scruton

There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.

~ Laurence Overmire

The thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word lost comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong.

~ Criss Jami

Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne

~ William Shakespeare

One’s skill is never complete, one’s knowledge is forever lacking, one’s taste is invariably altered, one’s opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.

~ Andrew Loomis

Don't make homes out of hollow hero's that don't know how to save themselves.

~ Nikki Rowe

I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I write to understand what I know.

~ Kamand Kojouri

...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The internet is a blessing and curse, because it's a gateway to an endless plethora of information. However it's flooded with pseudoscience, fringe science, false information, contrived statements, pure lies, & utter misrepresentations of facts. It's essentially a situation were you're mining for genuine gold in a cave of fools gold, & while genuine gold exists, it's overwhelmed & obscured so often by imitation.

~ Trevor Driggers

He who thinks he knows it all knows very little. ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

~ Dr. Maryann Diorio

...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.

~ Dan Simmons

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Knowledge can be powerful. But it can only be beautiful if there is more to it. If it is guided by something greater than the simple desire to enhance the potency of the mind.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Knowledge is the seed for thought. Knowledge, experience, and thoughts give birth to wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

on idea technology--Science creates ideas, science creates ways of understanding. And in the social sciences, ways of understanding ourselves. And they have an enormous influence on how we think, what we aspire to, and how we act. ......idea technology may be the most profoundly important technology that science gives us.......we do have to worry about the theories we have of human nature, because human nature will be changed by the theories we have that are designed to explain and help us understand human beings....it is only human nature to have a human nature that is very much the product of the society in which people live.--TED The way we think about work is broken

~ Barry Schwartz

We must think of ourselves as a tribe — as an international community that has come together with a common purpose of being initiated into the process.We all have to do it together. There is a link that happens — where THE growth, my growth, depends on the others' growth around us.We can no longer take these steps by ourselves. We have created a synergistic community. We must take a step towards knowledge together.

~ Alberto Villoldo

The Story Is Always ThereSometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need to ask what is their story - often people have it written on their faces and you just have to take the time out to read it.

~ Delma Pryce

It pains me to have all this knowledge and no one to share it with, I’d have to say its number 3 on my list. – Of what causes me the most pain.

~ James Jean-Pierre

If my brain was examined, they'd call me crazy… and for a long time I thought I was. Articles, doctors and psychiatrist and a whole bunch of other people constantly tell me there’s something wrong with me, so how could I not believe it. I now realize I’m not crazy, I just have access to a different part of the brain. A part of the brain that will cause people to kill themselves, because it’s so hard to handle.

~ James Jean-Pierre

... the more I seek, the less I find.

~ Norris J. Lacy