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They say that wisdom is a dying flower, and I disagree. In a world covered in mud, the lotus still continues to grow. Even after mankind washes itself away from the surface of the earth, knowledge will still remain. Look no further than the bosom of Nature. It offers all the solutions needed to cure and unite humanity. Wise men only exist as interpreters and transmitters of Truth. Their time on earth is limited, but Nature's existence is eternal. Open books shall always exist for those with an opened eye and pure heart; for Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Knowledge is only a rumor until it is in the muscle.
— Papua New Guinea Proverb
It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.
— J.R. Rim
A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
With the wings of knowledge, it is easier to fly toward the blue sky of wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all.
— J.W. Dunne, An Experiment with Time
Knowledge has no value if it does not enhance your wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Our knowledge is so limited that often we are not much better than an ape.
— Debasish Mridha
Seek knowledge to amaze yourself endlessly.
— Debasish Mridha
I go to bed with knowledge to dream, then dreams wake me up with the lights of wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
We often feel proud of our knowledge even when it is filled with emptiness.
— Debasish Mridha
The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha
The truth is hidden in books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to find the key;With thee takeOnly what none else would keep;Learn to dream when thou dost wake;Learn to wake when thou dost sleep.Learn to water joy with tears,Learn from fears to vanquish fears;To hope, for thou dar'st not despair;Exult, for that thou dar'st not grieve;Plough thou the rock until it bear;Know, for thou else couldst not believe;Lose, that the lost thou may'st receive;Die, for none other way canst live.'When earth and heave lay down their veil,And that apocalypse turns thee pale;When thy seeing blindeth theeTo what thy fellow-mortals see;When their sight to thee is sightless;Their living, death; their light, most lightless;Search no more--Pass the gates of Luthany,Tread the region Elenore!'Where is the land of Luthany?And where the region Elenore?I do faint therefore.'When to the new eyes of theeAll things by immortal power,Near or far,HiddenlyTo each other linked are,That thou canst not stir a flowerWithout troubling of a star;When thy song is shield and mirrorTo the fair snake curled pain,Where thou dar'st affront her terrorThat on her thou may'st attainPersean Conquest; seek no more,O seek no more!Pass the gates of Luthany,Tread the region Elenore!
— Francis Thompson
Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.
— Dada Bhagwan
Knowledge comes from curiosity wisdom comes from experience. 
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge (Gnan) is not attained first first the ego departs. 
— Dada Bhagwan
To know ‘as it is’ is Real Knowledge (Gnan).
— Dada Bhagwan
That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.
— Dada Bhagwan
The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.
— A.D. Posey
Knowledge of all living beings of the entire world is in only one Soul. But the knowledge that sees the ego and everything, as objects to be known (gneya); only that knowledge is called as the ‘Knowledge’. However, that is partial Knowledge but only from that moment it is regarded as real applied focused awareness. Where there is Knowledge, the focused applied awareness may be partial or complete.
— Dada Bhagwan
Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan).
— Dada Bhagwan
Infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy of the Soul is in the same state even today. The Soul has never been a sinner. The Soul is absolutely pure.
— Dada Bhagwan
I was not alone in my success, only in my failure.
— J. Devau, Theory of the Atheist: Record One of the Alias Wars
The sole purpose of knowledge is to create hunger for experience.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
To know ‘who I am and who I am not’ is called Absolute knowledge (Gnan).
— Dada Bhagwan
Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.
— Dada Bhagwan
Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.
— Dada Bhagwan
The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.
— Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Empathy is the door to wisdom.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.
— Stefan Molyneux
Leaders don’t hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share knowledge. They leave part of them with people they meet; hence they are hardly missed when they are gone.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it’s mine.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
Of course there is such a thing as too much doubt, for we ought to accept what is true. But there is also such a thing as proper doubt, for we ought not accept what is false. The possibility of doubt is inherent in the longing to understand, and nothing less than complete and perfect knowledge can satisfy the mind. We do not possess such knowledge here on earth; it is reserved for the beatific vision. Until then, doubt will be with us. This is...why it is so unreasonable to trust only what cannot be doubted, as Descartes proposed, because everything can be doubted. We should believe, not what we cannot doubt, but what we have the best reasons to believe.
— J. Budziszewski, Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law
Reading is a sacred-paradise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Mastering facts is knowledge. Mastering knowledge is wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
How could we have found, who we really are, without education?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can discover your sacred paths by reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
How could we have developed our intellectual skills without education?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A house filled with books is source of knowledge.
— Lailah  Gifty  Akita
Who is the ‘mother’ of ‘Knowledge (Gnan)’? It is ‘Understanding’ (samaj). Where can ‘understanding’ be acquired from? It is acquired from Gnani Purush (The Enlightened one).
— Dada Bhagwan
Knowledge is an intellectual art.Wisdom is a spiritual discipline.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The web was such a vital part of my life. It was like an oracle, a book that never ran out of pages, and a window into a million different rooms all at once.
— Max Harms, Crystal Society
Knowledge is intellectual art.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Science is learning to control everything but man.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The more man learns, the less he knows.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before—but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings.
— Billy Graham, Billy 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 every problem which besets us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.
— Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
— Alan Rickman
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.
— Luca Turin (Author) Tania Sanchez (Author), Perfumes: The Guide
When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you. A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death -- a state which I feared yet did not understand.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Leaders don’t leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
All the beauty of wisdom and knowledge resides in kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.
— Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
The mind is the treasury for knowledge, but the heart is the treasury for love and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is a power that you can borrow trust is a power which defines your inner strength. 
— Debasish Mridha
If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.
— Debasish Mridha
To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being.
— Debasish Mridha
Awareness ultimately has no boundaries. It exists in this world but endlessly goes beyond it. The world's great wisdom traditions all derive from a higher reality that is indescribable but can be experienced. This is the greatest wonder and source of awe. As the ancient Indian sages declare, “This isn't knowledge that you learn. It's knowledge that you become.” When you fully absorb this insight, you know what it means to transcend. You don't need to travel anywhere; all of reality exists in you. You exemplify wholeness because you are united with everything and everyone around you. You exist to demonstrate that human beings can reach the infinite, and by simply being who you are, you help others get there.
— Deepak Chopra, The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness
Knowledge is borrowed wisdom is unique. 
— Debasish Mridha
When you share your knowledge, you gain wisdom. Share as much as you can and as often as you can.
— Debasish Mridha
Without education, there will be no knowledge. Without knowledge, how can there be success?
— Debasish Mridha
Just go look.That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next.
— James Rollins, The Bone Labyrinth
We gain knowledge from education we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience. 
— Debasish Mridha
When you sweeten your knowledge and experience with your thoughts, it becomes your wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom.
— Debasish Mridha
Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.
— Debasish Mridha
A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut.
— Susan J. McIntire
Passion makes you hungry for knowledge in your field, and knowledge fuels your confidence, which makes you unique in your field leading you to be successful.
— Alahdal A. Hussein
A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Only Give up,When Your Hearts Gives up.(Don't Give up, till your Last Breath)
— Fahad Rashiq
There is nothing more powerful than gaining knowledge through our beliefs via personal experiences because when we turn belief into knowledge this way, we know what we know at the very core of our being, at a visceral level.
— Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?
— Criss Jami, Healology
On building homes for fallen angels:When I was small - I sought a home,a place to go and rest my bones.Then founded something, of my own,I lived among the restless stones.If seeking leads you back to evil,what good is that, I asked a weevil.He said a home is what you make,it can't be real, if it is fake...And if you wait instead of seek,will you find love, or something bleak?I know (myself) for I have found,a beauty, hidden – in a sound.Waiting is boring.And so is exploring.A smile is sometimes all it takes.And then your whole world simply breaks.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.
— G.A. Henty
You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.
— John Cleese
It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy.
— Stephen Colbert
. . and so it is that A Sensei may impart his knowledge of the martial Way and nurture your fighting abilities, but you must learn the wisdom of finding other ways than martial skills to solve your problems
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Sensei in Solitary
A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.
— Guatama Buddha
I stared at the little white agates in my hand, delicate as moon drops. The mystery of God's love as I understand it is that God loves the man who was being mean to his dog just as much as he loves babies; God loves Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons, as much as he loves Desmond Tutu. And he loved her just as much when she was releasing the handbrake of her car that sent her boys into the river as he did when she first nursed them. So of course, he loves old ordinary me, even or especially at my most scared and petty and mean and obsessive. Loves me; chooses me.Remembering this helped, but here is what in fact saved me: Sam came over to see what I held in my palm, glared contemptuously at my small white pebbles, and then without missing a beat slapped the bottom of my hand so that the agates scattered. He ran off down the beach, laughing with glee. It surprised me so, this small meanness, that it made me catch my breath. Boy, I thought, is he going to be hard to place.When I was young I would have felt, What’s the point of trying to be good if the people who aren’t even trying get to be equally loved? Now I just picked up my pace and tried to catch up with that rotten Sam, because I don’t know much of anything for sure. Only that I am loved – as is
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.
— Orrin Woodward
Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.
— Pawan Mishra
Knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen it will grow when you try to give it away. 
— Debasish Mridha
God is the source of all knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can’t give what you don’t have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Acquiring new knowledge has been crucial for survival over the millennia.
— Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization.
— Eraldo Banovac
Don't be ashamed for lack of knowledge. The real crime is having but not using it
— Grant  Walker
It is the right of the positive scientist, the logician, the mathematician, and the physicist, to remain within his scientific tradition and to abstain from concerning himself with its origin and institution. It is the duty of the philosopher to raise precisely that question in order to clarify and account for the very sense of modern science.
— Aron Gurwitsch, Phenomenology and Theory of Science
You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it.
— Brian Moran
The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God gives wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.
— Matthew Donnelly
In my quest to search for knowledge, I know God, the source of knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The greatest education is the knowledge of God. God gives life, strength and wisdom for every accomplishment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.
— Will Advise
The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
The greatest education is the knowledge of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
True liberty comes from education, knowledge, and wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is liberation, knowledge is power.
— Henry Johnson Jr
To find your self, get lost is the search of knowledge and wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.
— Criss Jami, Healology
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
— Rachel Carson
The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know. 
— Friedrich A. Hayek
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'. 
— Criss Jami, Healology
REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it’s give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
— Irving Howe
I think having the knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.
— Meg Wolitzer
In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone
— C.S. Woolley, Rising Empire: Part 2
Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
— Richard Holbrooke
Burning cocaine is the worst smell in the world. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison combined. A friend of mine once told me, that when you want to know something about anything, put some fire under it. The fire brings out everything. You want to know something about a motherfucker? Put some fire under his ass. Well, when you put some fire under that cocaine, you know what it's made out of.
— Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth
You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.
— James Randall Robison, God Wants You to Be Happy
Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth.""Which truth?""Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn
— Kay Hooper
I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Subject Steve
Intuition is the silent knowledge of your soul.
— Matthew Donnelly
Every human being has the same right of achieving this Supreme knowledge (Brahmagyan). When this will be same with each man then only it will carry true value. Each and every man is tied with the same wire. Unless this communism of God is established this will not get its fulfillment.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
When you are searching for knowledge, knowledge is also searching for you.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Knowledge is beautiful science is amazing. 
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
I do not know how it all started, but I would certainly play my part in how it all ends.
— Mamur Mustapha
Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction
— G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.
— Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM and enthusiasm will give you a positive energetic LIFE STYLE which could give you a successful exiting life…
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a POSITIVE life STYLE with positive ATTITUDE which could bring you a life with HAPPINESS and WISDOM
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in the outside
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
[D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and He will be revealed in its pages.
— A.W. Tozer, How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one.
— Louis L'Amour, Ride the Dark Trail
It's impossible to know everything about everything but the real pleasure lies in knowing something about everything
— Anubhav Mishra
Don’t despise any experience. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared
— H.G. Wells
I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a frank and forthright way of gazing about him in bewilderment. He hasn't the faintest clue where he is, and he aims to learn. In a couple of years, what he will have learned instead is how to fake it: he'll have the cocksure air of a squatter who has come to feel he owns the place. Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neighbourhood, view the landscape, to discover at least WHERE it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can't learn why.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.
— John Dunne
To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.
— Vironika Tugaleva
REMEMBERwhenever wherever you are.you're representing someone or something
— Fahad Rashiq
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not.
— John Phillips
A good quote: A timeless capsule of truth.
— Garry Fitchett
The future depends on attitude, aptitude, and gratitude--not on knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
There is no knowledge without learning. There is no wisdom without experience.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
...we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.
— Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age
— Baris Gencel
By philosophy, history, economics and science, all knowledge and wisdom, humanity may eventually arrive at the awareness of its own oneness.... Sudipta Das
— Sudipta   Das
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
— Claudio Encarnacion Montero
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more doors you open to the mysteries, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge aquired through those experiences.
— Ken Poirot
Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.
— Criss Jami, Healology
If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-
— Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.
— Idries Shah, The Commanding Self
Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.
— Eraldo Banovac
A man of knowledge can certainly offer some reasonable options to solve a problem – the question is why such a man is not always included in problem solving
— Eraldo Banovac
It is certain that there is no limit to the vast ocean of knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization.
— Eraldo Banovac
An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings. 
— Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.
— Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge as such can never be worthless.
— Eraldo Banovac
Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.
— Matthew Donnelly
You ought to search the Scriptures yourself, to discover the glorious gospel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A walk with nature awakens the mind of creativity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question. 
— Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and – evenmuch more – accumulated knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.
— Eraldo Banovac
Adding your own piece of knowledge to the vast knowledge of the humanrace could be a sufficient reason for having existed.
— Eraldo Banovac
There is a fascinating entanglement of science and knowledge, which is expressed as scientific knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds toone's intellectual capacity.
— Eraldo Banovac
Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
An idea: a theory or an equation, might sit around unnoticed for decades, centuries, even, before it's rediscovered and put to some use. That's how it works: it makes connections with other ideas, other knowledge, gathering momentum all the time, growing exponentially if it's strong enough. Just like it would connect and grow within the billions of neurons in a single mind.
— K. Valisumbra, Mortlake and Other Stories
What I know is the product of the hand I have been dealt and how I have reacted to that hand
— Kazeem Olalekan, Lamentations: A collection of poetry
I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made fore the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.
— Cecily von Ziegesar, Nobody Does it Better
I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace, truth, and justice for all. I may not be a fan of religion, but I am a big fan of God. I choose not to subscribe to any one religion because I recognize truths in them all — both the truths and flaws. For anybody to believe that any father would want to see his children fighting is madness. It does not make the Creator happy to see anybody massacre any of his beautiful creations. If you must know the religion I choose, I choose LOVE. If you must know the name of my god, his name is Truth, or rather 'He Who is One, The One Who is All.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
— Virgil, The Georgics
The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.
— Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
— Francis Bacon
Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience.
— Eraldo Banovac
Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise –– even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.
— Dan Smith, The State of the World Atlas
Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let’s just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.
— Eraldo Banovac
It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share
— Sunday Adelaja
A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Do not just accept anything without questioning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Dare to seek answers to your questions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The courage to ask question is the willingness to know.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.
— Zander Sherman, The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment
In Uganda, I wrote a questionaire that I had my research assistants give; on it, I asked about the embalasassa, a speckled lizard said to be poisonous and to have been sent by Prime minsister Milton Obote to kill Baganda in the late 1960s. It is not poisonous and was no more common in the 1960s than it had been in previous decades, as Makerere University science professors announced on the radio and stated in print… I wrote the question, What is the difference between basimamoto and embalasassa? Anyone who knows anything about the Bantu language—myself included—would know the answer was contained in the question: humans and reptiles are different living things and belong to different noun classes… A few of my informants corrected my ignorance… but many, many more ignored the translation in my question and moved beyond it to address the history of the constructs of firemen and poisonous lizards without the slightest hesitation. They disregarded language to engage in a discussion of events… My point is not about the truth of the embalasassa story… but rather that the labeling of one thing as ‘true’ and the other as ‘fictive’ or ‘metaphorical’—all the usual polite academic terms for false—may eclipse all the intricate ways in which people use social truths to talk about the past. Moreover, chronological contradictions may foreground the fuzziness of certain ideas and policies, and that fuzziness may be more accurate than any exact historical reconstruction… Whether the story of the poisionous embalasassa was real was hardly the issue; there was a real, harmless lizard and there was a real time when people in and around Kampala feared the embalasassa. They feared it in part because of beliefs about lizards, but mainly what frightened people was their fear of their government and the lengths to which it would go to harm them. The confusions and the misunderstandings show what is important; knowledge about the actual lizard would not.
— Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
The courage to ask question is a daring act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.
— Orrin Woodward
Read and search for the answers you seek.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful.
— Eraldo Banovac
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share.
— Sunday Adelaja
Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful.
— Benjamin Meadows
The base is as strong as the foundation, the tree's trunk as sturdy as the depth it took root. And when we witness this the questions of past introspection could also be: When did certain reinforcements of that foundation get established?And why were there cracks to begin with?...that could take you so far back depending on the person, for that matter, any intelligent life-form, to make you ask:How could I compassionately hold anyone so against what I know I possibly once did myself?
— James Emlund
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
— Albert Einstein
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
— Herman Melville
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
— Salvador Dalí
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston S. Churchill
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
— Albert Einstein
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. 
— Coco Chanel
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. 
— Walt Disney Company
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
— Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
— Bob Dylan
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
— Robert F. Kennedy
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
— Winston S. Churchill
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
— J.M. Barrie
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
— Dalai Lama XIV
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. 
— Bill Cosby
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
— Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
— Zig Ziglar
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
— George Bernard Shaw
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
— Joyce Brothers
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
— Dr. Seuss
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
— John Wooden
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
— Woody Allen
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
— Dale Carnegie
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
— Albert Einstein
Fortune sides with him who dares.
— Virgil
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
— Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight