Knowledge Quotes

It’s not the application that is stopping people from using timeless knowledge passed on to us, it’s the acknowledging part.

~ Daya Kudari

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.

~ Sara Sheridan

Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather magically, the exact same physical act becomes the felony of “manufacturing a controlled substance.” Evidently the Old Testament and the criminal code both make a connection between forbidden plants and knowledge.

~ Michael Pollan

Service is the highest form of worship.

~ Debasish Mridha

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

~ Homer Hickam

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.

~ Belsebuub

The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.

~ Will Self

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

~ Alexander Strauch

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

~ Debasish Mridha

...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.

~ Ally Condie

The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom.

~ Sachin Kalbag

We continuously enhance our knowledge base be it latest in technology, market scenario or customer requirements.

~ Uae Exchange

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

~ Rhonda Riley

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

~ Idries Shah

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.

~ Debasish Mridha

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Finally, let me share a feeling of mine, I hope it will not be misinterpreted as pride. I am seventy four now. But still, if they give me a duty in the wooden hut where I used to stay when I was a mentor long years ago, I will gladly run there and try to fulfill that duty. Perhaps, some of our friends can see that task as a simple and trivial one. But I have not underestimated this duty and would never do so. Even today, some people may consider our having lessons with the small circle of young scholars here as a simple and trivial job. However, in my opinion, this is the most important occupation that can take human to the highest levels.

~ M. Fethullah Gülen

Participating in the filling of others' brains with knowledge and know-how is just an extraordinary gift only very few have. Hence, teaching a language is indeed opening these brains to the world with its similarities and dissimilarities taught in different words.

~ Messaoud Mohammed

Teaching is the best way to learn.

~ Debasish Mridha

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.

~ Gerald Durrell

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

~ Hermann Hesse

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

~ Yōko Ogawa

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

~ Brian Herbert

And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds.

~ Rae La Rae

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear of grand formulas that rendering the implicit explicit is the cognitive form of fate. Were this not the case, one would never have had cause to believe that later knowledge would necessarily be better knowledge - for, as we know, everything that has been termed 'research' in the last centuries has rested on this assumption. Only when the inward-folded 'things' or facts are by their nature subject to a tendency to unfold themselves and become more comprehensible for us can one - provided the unfolding succeeds - speak of a true increase in knowledge. Only if the 'matters' are spontaneously prepared (or can be forced by imposed examination) to come to light in magnified and better-illuminated areas can one seriously - which here means with ontological emphasis - state that there is science in progress, there are real knowledge gains, there are expeditions in which we, the epistemically committed collective, advance to hidden continents of knowledge by making thematic what was previously unthematic, bringing to light what is yet unknown, and transforming vague cognizance into definite knowledge. In this manner we increase the cognitive capital of our society - the latter word without quotation marks in this case.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age.

~ Mark Helprin

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

~ Rajib Lochan Dhibar

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

~ Elbert Hubbard

There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin, cause, and nature of subterranean things; for then he will be able to dig out the veins easily and advantageously, and to obtain more abundant results from his mining. Secondly there is Medicine, that he may be able to look after his diggers and other workman ... Thirdly follows astronomy, that he may know the divisions of the heavens and from them judge the directions of the veins. Fourthly, there is the science of Surveying that he may be able to estimate how deep a shaft should be sunk ... Fifthly, his knowledge of Arithmetical Science should be such that he may calculate the cost to be incurred in the machinery and the working of the mine. Sixthly, his learning must comprise Architecture, that he himself may construct the various machines and timber work required underground ... Next, he must have knowledge of Drawing, that he can draw plans of his machinery. Lastly, there is the Law, especially that dealing with metals, that he may claim his own rights, that he may undertake the duty of giving others his opinion on legal matters, that he may not take another man's property and so make trouble for himself, and that he may fulfil his obligations to others according to the law.

~ Georgius Agricola

We are what we know and what we are good at. Whenever what we know and what we are good at increase, our position increases and our goals are achieved 

~ عبد الكريم بكار

He who knows more is more responsible.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad