Actions Quotes Logo

Knowledge Quotes

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search fo...

Show More
Picture of Amartya Sen
Amartya SenThe Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

Picture of Amit Ray
Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are n...

Show More
Picture of Amitav Ghosh
Amitav GhoshThe Shadow Lines

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the sam...

Show More

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an ...

Show More

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more myst...

Show More

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

Picture of André Maurois
André MauroisDisraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not...

Show More
A
Anne CarsonEros the Bittersweet

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...

Show More

I stared at the little white agates in my hand, delicate as moon drops. The mystery of God's love as...

Show More
Picture of Anne Lamott
Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a sha...

Show More

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...

Show More

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, a...

Show More

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratit...

Show More

I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up h...

Show More

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to...

Show More

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal...

Show More
Picture of Anthony de Mello
Anthony de MelloAwakening: Conversations with the Masters

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their t...

Show More

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows"...

Show More

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is...

Show More

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of ...

Show More

Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objecti...

Show More
Picture of Antonio Gramsci
Antonio GramsciSelections from the Prison Notebooks

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

Show More

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

Show More

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beauti...

Show More

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

All men by nature desire to know.

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Picture of Aristotle
AristotleOn Man in the Universe

Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced i...

Show More

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its fo...

Show More

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature:...

Show More

Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and cha...

Show More

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...

Show More
Picture of Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur SchopenhauerEssays and Aphorisms

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be...

Show More

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very accepta...

Show More

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena whe...

Show More
Picture of Arundhati Roy
Arundhati RoyThe Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you y...

Show More

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can'...

Show More

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire kn...

Show More

The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Red...

Show More

May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us...

Show More

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error o...

Show More

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

Show More

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

Show More

Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell ...

Show More

But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn y...

Show More
Picture of Ayn Rand
Ayn RandThe Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life...

Show More

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with...

Show More

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture o...

Show More

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas inv...

Show More

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

Show More

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do m...

Show More
Picture of Baruch Spinoza
Baruch SpinozaTheological-Political Treatise

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there i...

Show More

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, ...

Show More
Picture of Bell hooks
Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with...

Show More

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Picture of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin FranklinThe Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no se...

Show More

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a q...

Show More

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and ...

Show More

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of c...

Show More

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from w...

Show More
Picture of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAuthority and the Individual

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

Show More
Picture of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.

Picture of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

We know amazingly little about what happens beneath our feet. It is fairly remarkable to think that ...

Show More
Picture of Bill Bryson
Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being ...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The more man learns, the less he knows.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glo...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of ever...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can ca...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Science is learning to control everything but man.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being ...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The more man learns, the less he knows.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glo...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of ever...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes