Knowledge Quotes · Page 215

Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs.

— Sufyan al-Thawri

To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.

— Dalai Lama

It takes a real men to know when something is wrong with his lady without she telling him.

— Ayo_Dice

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

All are stricken and you are safe? All got it wrong and you got it right? All are blameworthy, and you have…

— Anas

Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

— Frederick Lenz

someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we…

— Alice Miller

The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward…

— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the…

— Isaac Asimov

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to…

— Lord Acton

“The master key of knowledge is, indeed, a persistent and frequent questioning. Aristotle, the most clear-sighted of all the philosophers, was desirous…

— Peter Abelard

“What does it matter?" I shrugged. "It's interesting and anything thats interesting is worth learning.”

— Amanda Lance

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

— Anonymous

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

— Mort Sahl

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

— Napoleon Hill

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

— Luther Burbank

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

— Laozi

“never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.”

— Ernest Becker

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

— Tyler Burge

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all…

— Annie Dillard

“As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.”

— Leanna Renee Hieber

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

— Marcus Garvey

“Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to ‘consciousness’ of human knowledge.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as…

— Robin Morgan

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

— Andy Stanley

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

— Mark Twain

Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain…

— Rumi

“The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser…

— Thomas Aquinas

“To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

— Swami Vivekananda

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which…

— Bob Proctor

It's parent's instinct on how they will mold their child's character, knowledge and talent.

— Anonymous