Knowledge Quotes

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that ...

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of i...

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. T...

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-...

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the concept...

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

If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean tha...

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear ...

I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an ear...

We understand more than we know.

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands in...

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you kn...

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear ...

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it...

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are ...

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by obse...

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my firs...

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. ...

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is ...

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, ...

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowl...

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you shoul...

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his ...

i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think th...

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, ...

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't o...

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remov...

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about i...

But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and...

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. W...

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to unde...

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge ...

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit...

Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

But often, in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspea...

Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends o...

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and ...

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might...

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissol...

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistica...

The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of ratio...

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get mos...

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do...

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts....

Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the vo...

Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a m...

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking k...

So far as we know, the tiny fragments of the universe embodied in man are the only centers of though...

Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowled...

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the...

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it ‘excludes’, it...

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and...

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the ...

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom...

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I th...

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting togeth...

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

Burning cocaine is the worst smell in the world. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison combi...

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, the...

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject,"...

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat diff...

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than b...

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, cert...

In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you in...