Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 25
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 25 provides more knowledge quotes.
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.Collection: Knowledge
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Collection: Knowledge
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.Collection: Knowledge
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.Collection: Knowledge
Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.Collection: Knowledge
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?Collection: Knowledge
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.Collection: Knowledge
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.Collection: Knowledge
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.Collection: Knowledge
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.Collection: Knowledge
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.Collection: Knowledge
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.Collection: Knowledge
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.Collection: Knowledge
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.Collection: Knowledge
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.Collection: Knowledge
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.Collection: Knowledge
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.Collection: Knowledge
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.Collection: Knowledge
That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!Collection: Knowledge
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.Collection: Knowledge
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.Collection: Knowledge
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.Collection: Knowledge
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.Collection: Knowledge
Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.Collection: Knowledge
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.Collection: Knowledge
Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.Collection: Knowledge
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.Collection: Knowledge
Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.Collection: Knowledge
No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.Collection: Knowledge
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.Collection: Knowledge
What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?Collection: Knowledge
Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.Collection: Knowledge
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.Collection: Knowledge
The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.Collection: Knowledge
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.Collection: Knowledge
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.Collection: Knowledge
Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.Collection: Knowledge
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.Collection: Knowledge
"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.Collection: Knowledge
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.Collection: Knowledge
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.Collection: Knowledge