Knowledge Quotes

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.

~ Hermann Hesse

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

~ Criss Jami

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

~ Monica Drake

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

~ Criss Jami

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

~ Debasish Mridha

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

~ Stefan Molyneux

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

~ Debasish Mridha

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

~ Mehek Bassi

The universe never complains.When you're wrong or right,She always loves and cares,She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light,Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgetsTo show you the light.

~ Debasish Mridha

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

~ Leo Tolstoy

A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.

~ Debasish Mridha

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.

~ Suzy Kassem

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

~ Plato

The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.

~ Debasish Mridha

Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless.

~ Debasish Mridha

The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.

~ Debasish Mridha

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Love is my inner strength and my power.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

~ Amit Kalantri

We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.

~ Suzy Kassem

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

~ Suzy Kassem

Great losses are great lessons.

~ Amit Kalantri

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

~ Amit Kalantri

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

~ Peter Prange

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.

~ Debasish Mridha

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

~ Compton Gage

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

~ Compton Gage

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

~ Compton Gage

Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of free will can be compatible with determinism?orb. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?Of course my answer is b).

~ Jerry A. Coyne

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: We're All Individuals!

~ Jonah Goldberg

I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.

~ Alexander Nehamas

Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still suffer from starvation and war. The difference between the past and the present is the difference between throwing rocks and shooting missiles. We are still in conflict. Suffering on a fundamental level hasn’t ceased. But we nevertheless persist in the notion that if we just amass a bit more knowledge, we’ll all be o.k. Maybe a new philosophy will do the trick, or a new system of government. But all of this has been tried many times.Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It’s the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation—a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.

~ H.e. Davey

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

~ Plato

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

~ Paul Karl Feyerabend

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.

~ Iain Pears