Knowledge Quotes

Happiness is not a destination but the journey itself.

~ Debasish Mridha

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

~ Jay-Z

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

~ Debasish Mridha

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

~ Shepherd Hoodwin

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

~ Kyle Schmalenberg

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

~ Ayn Rand

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious m

~ Immanuel Kant

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

~ Brandi L. Bates

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

~ Brandi L. Bates

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

~ Brandi L. Bates

Perfection does not mean errorless . Real perfection starts with real intention and ends with delivery, all driven by seeking knowledge, trial & error and investing emotions. Whatever delivered after that is perfect .

~ Sameh Elsayed

But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and the most superstitious of peoples as followers, and the vilest, most ridiculous, and most roguish working man as representative, to muddle up the message so much that it is impossible to comprehend, to teach it only to a tiny number of individuals while leaving everyone else in the dark, and to punish them for remaining there... Oh, no, Therese, no, no, such atrocities cannot be our guide. I would rather die a thousand times than believe in them. When atheism wants martyrs, let it choose them and my blood is ready.

~ Marquis De Sade

I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency. It is a misnomer. There is nothing new about nonbelief. All of us, without exception, are born knowing nothing of God or gods, and acquire notions of religion solely through interaction with others – or, most often, indoctrination by others, an indoctrination usually commencing well before we can reason. Our primal state is, thus, one of nonbelief. The New Atheists (most prominently Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens) have, in essence, done nothing more than try to bring us back to our senses, to return us to a pure and innate mental clarity.

~ Jeffrey Tayler

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

~ Napoleon Hill

Happiness has no book value, but life has no value if there is no happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

~ Heinrich Heine

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.

~ Willis R. Whitney

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge which may then be distorted by particular interests and judgements, although this is certainly possible; it is also that without particular interests we would have no knowledge at all, because we would not see the point of bothering to get to know anything. Interests are constitutive of our knowledge, not merely prejudices which imperil it. The claim that knowledge should be 'value-free' is itself a value-judgement.

~ Terry Eagleton

If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was truly created equal, and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another, or that one nation is less deserving than another?

~ Suzy Kassem

When knowledge and education reach you, you have a whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy.

~ Vinicius Montgomery

When knowledge and education reach you, you have an whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy.

~ Vinicius Montgomery

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

~ John F. Kennedy

Expiating a sin does not mean doing something opposite to wallow in guilt, but to use that same guilt to achieve full knowledge of the sin. The fault lies more not in having committed certain acts, rather in having carried them out without reaching their intimate knowledge. And this leads to committing a wrong again and again.

~ Massimo Marino

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

~ Idries Shah

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

~ Idries Shah

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

~ Charles Darwin

The principle chore of brains is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organism may survive. Improvements in sensorimotor control confer an evolutionary advantage: a fancier style of representing [the world] is advantageous so long as it... enhances an organism's chances for survival. Truth, whatever that is, takes the hindmost.

~ Patricia Churchland

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

~ Idries Shah

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.

~ Idries Shah

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

~ Idries Shah

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

~ Idries Shah

Definition of a SufiTo learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

~ Idries Shah

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar

~ Idries Shah

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is no better adviser than a good book.

~ Debasish Mridha

Where's your church?We're standing in it.But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday.Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.

~ Forrest Church

Respond with love even when someone wants to hurt you.

~ Debasish Mridha

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

~ Mark Batterson

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

~ Michel De Montaigne