Knowledge Quotes

I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

~ Agatha Christie

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

~ Idries Shah

Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.

~ Eraldo Banovac

It is certain that there is no limit to the vast ocean of knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization.

~ Eraldo Banovac

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.

~ Amartya Sen

Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge as such can never be worthless.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.

~ Matthew Donnelly

You ought to search the Scriptures yourself, to discover the glorious gospel.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A walk with nature awakens the mind of creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question.

~ Vikrmn

Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and – evenmuch more – accumulated knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Adding your own piece of knowledge to the vast knowledge of the humanrace could be a sufficient reason for having existed.

~ Eraldo Banovac

There is a fascinating entanglement of science and knowledge, which is expressed as scientific knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds toone's intellectual capacity.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

An idea: a theory or an equation, might sit around unnoticed for decades, centuries, even, before it's rediscovered and put to some use. That's how it works: it makes connections with other ideas, other knowledge, gathering momentum all the time, growing exponentially if it's strong enough. Just like it would connect and grow within the billions of neurons in a single mind.

~ K. Valisumbra

What I know is the product of the hand I have been dealt and how I have reacted to that hand

~ Kazeem Olalekan

I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made fore the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.

~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace, truth, and justice for all. I may not be a fan of religion, but I am a big fan of God. I choose not to subscribe to any one religion because I recognize truths in them all — both the truths and flaws. For anybody to believe that any father would want to see his children fighting is madness. It does not make the Creator happy to see anybody massacre any of his beautiful creations. If you must know the religion I choose, I choose LOVE. If you must know the name of my god, his name is Truth, or rather 'He Who is One, The One Who is All.

~ Suzy Kassem

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

~ Virgil

The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.

~ Criss Jami

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.

~ Suzy Kassem

Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

~ Idries Shah

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

~ Francis Bacon

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise –– even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.

~ Dan Smith

Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let’s just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Do not just accept anything without questioning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to seek answers to your questions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The courage to ask question is the willingness to know.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.

~ Zander Sherman