Knowledge Quotes

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

~ Jacob Bronowski

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable, the latter is not.

~ Criss Jami

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

~ Helen Simonson

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

~ Suzy Kassem

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

~ Luis Marques

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

~ Ben Carson

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

~ Romain Rolland

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool:,A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

~ Idries Shah

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

~ Mikhail Naimy

Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

~ Suzy Kassem

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match

~ Joshua Caleb

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

~ Idries Shah

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

~ Phyllis Mcginley

Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional. ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

~ Carson Mccullers

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.

~ Confucius

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.

~ Randall Jarrell

a problem well put is half solved.

~ John Dewey

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

~ Leo Tolstoy

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

~ Adedayo Kingjerry

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

~ Victor Hugo

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

~ T.s. Eliot

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

~ Edward Abbey

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

~ Idries Shah

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.

~ Dewayne Owens

There is a knowledge that is beyond the mind and the intellect, it is the wisdom of consciousness.

~ Belsebuub

O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.

~ Suzy Kassem

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

~ Criss Jami

Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.

~ Saleem Sharma

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

~ Criss Jami

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

~ Tahir Shah

Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them. HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

~ Alasdair Gray