Knowledge Quotes
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.John Milton
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.Matthew Henry
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.Anais Nin
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.Juvenal
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.The Hitopadesa
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.August Hare
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.Albert Schweitze
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.Albert Einstein
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.Patanjali
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.T. S. Eliot
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.George Will
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.Proverbs 35 Bible
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.Voltaire
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.Bertrand Russell
