Knowledge Quotes

Education is a process of unlearning and learning.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

~ Criss Jami

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Dare to seek knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are my friend because I saw my ability to increase my knowledge around you.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

~ Idries Shah

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

~ Idries Shah

Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You don't know what you don't know

~ John Stein

I don’t argue with fools, I educate.

~ Shannon L. Alder

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

~ Idries Shah

The purpose of life is the lesson.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

~ Idries Shah

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

~ Idries Shah

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

~ Idries Shah

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

~ Idries Shah

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

~ Idries Shah

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

~ Idries Shah

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauß

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.Excerpt from Living in Light, Love & Truth. (Page 3).

~ Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

~ Amy Neftzger

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

~ John Lubbock

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

~ Idries Shah

There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

~ Tim Fargo

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

~ Graham O'connell

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

~ Idries Shah

It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of our jobs. Plus, they're easier to take care of now, so they don't bother us nearly as much when we need to do them. When we know more about our work and its ramifications, we can see the connections between what we do and the effects that those things have on other people.

~ Tom Walsh

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Your vehicle of leadership is fueled by your willingness to learn. You can't lead if you can't learn!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

~ Navonne Johns

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

~ Idries Shah

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

~ Josh Hanagarne

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

~ Louisa May Alcott

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

~ Tim Fargo

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

~ Marty Rubin

I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned.

~ Ishmael Reed

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

~ Tim Fargo