Knowledge Quotes

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

~ Idries Shah

Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.

~ Kenan Malik

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Perfection is the enemy of greatness. We as people are limited in the knowledge and information we have, so to say one has reached all of the highest standards of what is known as the conventional consummation of human excellence means there is nothing more they would have to learn. This of course, is impossible, for there are always new things to learn, and so perfection is unachievable and unattainable.

~ Nocturnus Libertus

Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society.

~ Debasish Mridha

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

~ Debasish Mridha

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do not confuse the two.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

~ Idries Shah

When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments of society . . . utilize to challenge them?

~ Martin Guevara Urbina

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

~ Chetan Bhagat

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

~ Steven Erikson

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The Book revealed to Muhammad is one and unique of its kind. It has left indelible impression on the hearts of humanity. Nothing can overcome its majesty. The Quran has given new dimensions to human thinking - Surprising reforms, stunning success! The power that created in Muslims a ravenous appetite for knowledge sprung from the Quran.

~ B. Margoliouth

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

~ C.g. Jung

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

~ Idries Shah

The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.

~ Israel M. Kirzner

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

~ Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

~ Idries Shah

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

~ Eric Hirzel

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

~ Idries Shah

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

~ Idries Shah

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

~ Idries Shah

Persistence is the source of great strength.

~ Debasish Mridha

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

~ Debasish Mridha

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.

~ Philip Abelson

Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every human being, as the quest for truth is the true purpose of living. We are given an entire lifetime to collect and assemble truths. Truths are acquired only when we learn to filter all information, including those valuable lessons and insights gained from our own personal experiences, through our conscience. And as we near death, the knowledge in our hearts at the end must match the knowledge which was put in our hearts in the very beginning. All else is irrelevant.

~ Suzy Kassem

When your Knowledge is linked together it’s called Experience.

~ Udayveer Singh

Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Don't regret, just celebrate your knowledge and wisdom. Life isn't about an easygoing sheltered heaven, it's about living.

~ Rola Mahmoud

The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing alive and kicking dreams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

~ Simona Panova

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

~ Pat Williams

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

~ Mark Slouka