Knowledge Quotes · Page 105

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

— Sophia Amoruso

“Knowledge is a key. You don't know what it will unlock, but it's good to keep around just in case.”

— A.L. Exley

“God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.”

— James Targett

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

— Daniel Barenboim

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

— Mark Twain

“To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moha (illusory attachment).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated.

— Condoleezza Rice

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

— TS Eliot

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

— John Calvin

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

— Leo Tolstoy

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

— Will Carleton

“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”

— Plato

“Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.”

— Richard S. Hartmetz

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

— Francis Bacon

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no such thing as lack of love. There is only plenty of fear,which clouds our perceptions.”

— Raphael Zernoff

“Do not confuse the crippling hauntedness of judgment with the transformational power of awareness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

— Anonymous

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

— John Dewey

“Knowledge is a musket. You can use it only as a club, but will you? When your life is on the line?”

— Brent Weeks

Knowledge and learning, evidence-based decision making can have a huge positive impact on the world.

— Anonymous

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

— Idries Shah

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I don't want to be the smartest person in the world because I don't want to be surrounded by idiots.

— Derek Queen

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

— Isabel Allende

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

— Hippocrates

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

— Alexander the Great

“When obedience and faith are made perfect, it may be that knowledge and explanation shall be given.”

— Margaret Gatty

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

— Anonymous

Knowledge is something which is all around us all the time, its up to us if we have to get it or…

— Sanji-Paul Arvind

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Verified Gnan (knowledge) is not just called gnan. Verified gnan is called ‘established principle’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.”

— Raheel Farooq

“We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.”

— Sunday Adelaja

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

— Anonymous

“There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.”

— Jon Erickson