Knowledge Quotes

You have to want the book enough to read it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).

~ Dada Bhagwan

I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.

~ Cecelia Ahern

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

~ Criss Jami

Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message is received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction.

~ Bell Hooks

The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?

~ Suzy Kassem

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

~ Francis Bacon

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.

~ Criss Jami

By thinking of things you could understand them.

~ James Joyce

Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough

~ Jean-François Lyotard

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

~ Bram Stoker

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.

~ Shiv Khera

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

~ Pamela Dean

HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?” the Voice demanded.“I look at things and think about them,” Folly replied. “And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.

~ Jim Butcher

To uncover new knowledge, and to find the truth, one must dare venture into the unknown.

~ Theodore Volgoff

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle.

~ Shiv Khera

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

~ Francis Bacon

Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge).

~ Dada Bhagwan

What comes from experience is knowledge,what comes naturally is wisdom.

~ Nitya More

We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live.

~ Shiv Khera

Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.

~ Amit Kalantri

The Best films are a small amount, some films learn us things which we won't forget, others just show us one of the things which we already know others just lose our time. But which are the best? and Which you will choose?.. Are the best two questions you must ask yourself before you start watching a film!

~ Deyth Banger

If you search enough, you will find.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Search. Search.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Isn't it a good thing we don't know everything? If we did, we wouldn't have a reason to have curiosity, and curiosity is like imagination, taking us back to the time when we were just children in our own fantasylands.

~ Jule Warner

It is difficult to learn what you do not enjoy. So love every bit of knowledge and enjoy every moment.

~ Debasish Mridha

Knowledge is the ultimate secret of courage.

~ Debasish Mridha

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).

~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.

~ Robin Hobb

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.

~ Robin Hobb

I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.

~ Robin Hobb

If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.

~ Criss Jami

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

~ J.r. Rim

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

~ Idries Shah

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We know amazingly little about what happens beneath our feet. It is fairly remarkable to think that Ford has been building cars and baseball has been playing World Series for longer than we have known that the Earth has a core. And of course the idea that the continents move about on the surface like lily pads has been common wisdom for much less than a generation. “Strange as it may seem,” wrote Richard Feynman, “we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

~ Bill Bryson

We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth.

~ Criss Jami