Knowledge Quotes · Page 215

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

— Frederick Lenz

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

— Chetan Bhagat

“It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.”

— Jim Hinckley

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

— John Gray

“Whoever holds the keys to house of knowledge, must open the door, for those who search for light of knowledge to enter.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“An Asetian never tries to talk louder than the crowd surrounding him. An Asetian becomes that crowd.”

— Luis Marques

“All the elements of greater emotional awareness can weave together to ensure you make a more positive impact.”

— Susan C. Young

In my day there was no one to tell me anything and I feel I have a responsibility to help a new…

— Leslie Jordan

I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and…

— Richard Dreyfuss

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. —Confucius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you…

— Max Tegmark

“I pretend not to teach, but to inquire; and therefore cannot but confess here again,–that external and internal sensation are the only…

— John Locke

We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is…

— Samuel Wilks

Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does.…

— Carlos Castaneda

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something…

— Jared Diamond

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them…

— Russell L. Ackoff

We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.

— Debra Granik

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

— Confucius

Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance…

— Stuart Wilde

“Unless thinkers carry their respect for cause and effect into the field of human relations, they may not have much awareness of…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.

— Frederick Lenz

“Gnan’ (knowledge) is to know your own Self, and to not know that, is agnan (ignorance).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.

— William Rotsler

“What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

— Daniel H. Wilson

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

— Martin Rees

“Gnan’ [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one’s own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Unfortunately, I know very little about Indian cinema. I know we have Bollywood... But my knowledge about it is very little.

— Justin Hartley

“Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

— Cheng Yi

“In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter…

— Ernest Sosa

“Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Anything in excess is bad except knowledge, because you can never have knowledge in excess. You are always learning.

— Ayush Aggarwal

“Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”

— Jack London