Knowledge Quotes · Page 134

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

— Ken Keyes Jr

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win…

— Brandi L. Bates

I admire orderly friend ! a man without knowledge is as one that is dead ! what you think concerning !

— Kamal

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

— David Eller

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your…

— Anonymous

“It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For…

— W. Somerset Maugham

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what…

— Charles Caleb Colton

People who laugh on someone or everyone paving a new road to scale up on a growth graph know consciously well that…

— Anuj Somany

The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge…

— Karl R. Popper

“It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

— Madeleine L'Engle

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it…

— Frederick Lenz

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

— Abraham Maslow

Knowledge is always a benefit and to have a better understanding of our player's individual needs will help us.

— Emma Hayes

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

— Peter Lombard

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

— Alexander Pope

We can see what works in one part of the world and one market, and we can share that knowledge and expertise…

— Steve Easterbrook

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so…

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

— F. R. Leavis

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know…

— John M. Tyler

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing…

— Samuel Johnson

If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.

— Govinda

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

— George Polya

If you have a Destiny to fulfill, you will not pay attention to the cynics and the critics.

— Ore Abayomi

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

— Mooji

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve…

— Anonymous

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

— George Santayana

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

— Richard Dawkins

“I always revisit those things I think I know with the hope that I will learn and understand that much more". ~R.…

— R. Alan Woods

“What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?”

— John Irving

Age has nothing to do with you knowledge, we have old with not much, and young with extra kniwledge..

— MK Rono