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Knowledge is not a heritage to be passed on so much as it is something to be created and continually increased
— Peter Beyer, Religions in Global Society
Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.
— Willowy Whisper
Should you wish to pursue the infinity of truth, you must make yourself humble as ashes and vigorous as the wind.
— Abhijit Naskar
The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you.
— James Emlund
They say "the taste of the pudding is in the eating," but that doesn't apply to "a square peg in a round hole".If the peg is driven by hunger to give and desire to fill, and the hole on the other hand is moved by thirst to receive and purpose to fulfil, then a deep knowledge of the reason for existence, a mutual understanding of roles, and the wisdom to effectively carry out those roles are very key, if we must have a round peg in a round hole, or a square peg in a square hole.But then again, who cares about "shape" in desperation?!
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within
The quest for knowledge is what makes humans survive, even if it hurts.” I have trouble imagining that this éminence grise was once a sixteen-year-old Hungarian boy in a death camp. “There’s a troublesome verse from Ecclesiastes about this,” he tells me. “It says that the more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.” He pauses for a moment to let this sink in. “Of course, it hurts when we see pictures of people throwing themselves out of windows, children who are orphaned, the widows,” Wiesel says. “But there is no way out of what we’ve seen.” “And how do we live with what we know?” I ask “How can we live with not knowing?
— Mark Matousek, When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
Those with knowledge crave to become wiser, not powerful.
— Kiady Diaz
A man wakes up and for a few moments he experiences everything exactly as it is. Jon wrote: A man wakes up and is lucid. It doesn’t last long, though, he thought, that kind of lucidity. If it did you wouldn’t be able to stand it, it would kill you.
— Ullmann, Linn
Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?
— John Fowles, The Collector
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
— Mark Twain
I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.
— Kamand Kojouri
Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.
— Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion
Truth is the preferred weapon of God, and censorship is the most abused tool of the Devil.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.
— Criss Jami
As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as much as they need to know') lies-to-patients ('they won't worry about what they don't know') and, for all sorts of reasons, lies-to-ourselves. Lies-to-children is simply a prevalent and necessary kind of lie. Universities are very familiar with bright, qualified school-leavers who arrive and then go into shock on finding that biology or physics isn't quite what they've been taught so far. 'Yes, but you needed to understand that,' they are told, 'so that now we can tell you why it isn't exactly true.' Discworld teachers know this, and use it to demonstrate why universities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know very nearly everything, and they leave years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? Into the university, of course, where it is carefully dried and stored.
— Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld
Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.
— Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance
— Plato, The Republic
The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no placein the endeavor of science.
— Carl Sagan
Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a statesman versed in the policy of European courts. To the eyes of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for one of those cosmopolitans, curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical, who move incessantly from place to place, and are of no country.
— Jules Verne
Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.
— Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion
Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.
— Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
[To admit that college isn't for everyone] may sound élitist. It may even sound philistine, since the purpose of a liberal-arts education is to produce well-rounded citizens rather than productive workers. But perhaps it is more foolishly élitist to think that going to school until age 22 is necessary to being well-rounded, or to tell millions of young adults that their futures depend on performing a task that only a minority of them can actually accomplish.It is absurd that people have to get college degrees to be considered for good jobs in hotel management or accounting — or journalism. It is inefficient, both because it wastes a lot of money and because it locks people who would have done good work out of some jobs. The tight connection between college degrees and economic success may be a nearly unquestioned part of our social order. Future generations may look back and shudder at the cruelty of it.
— Ramesh Ponnuru
The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith.
— Mark Hodder, The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Knowing Psalm 23 is different from knowing the shepherd.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Where should one turn for guidance in an appraisal of of the essence of justice, morality, ethics, religion, science, literaturem, and the like? Not to the past, for history is willfully misinterpreted; and not to the church, which is ineffective because of the cowardice of its leaders. Even science cannot be helpful beccause its exponents have succeeded only in destroying the harmony of life. It is therefore the duty of literature to rediscover the truth and beauty of life that other means have failed to find.
— Hymen Chonon Berkowitz
By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth
Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind.
— Debasish Mridha
If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.
— Alex Stein, Weird Emptiness: Essays and Aphorisms
Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?
— James Jean-Pierre
How much does it cost to treat leprosy? One $3 dose of antibiotic will cure a mild case; a $20 regimen of three antibiotics will cure a more severe case. The World Health Organization even provides the drugs free,but India‘s health care infrastructure is not good enough to identify the afflicted and get them themedicine they need.So, more than 100,000 people in India are horribly disfigured by a disease that costs $3 to cure.That is what it means to have a per capita GDP of $2,900.
— Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.
— Dada Bhagwan
There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is to know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of nowhere, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading--and then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates, and no matter how often I reread the same lines, they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading...
— Muriel Barbery
The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.
— Murad S. Shah
Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.
— Roger Scruton
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
— Laurence Overmire
The thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.
— Rebecca Solnit
Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.
— Slavoj Žižek
Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong.
— Criss Jami
Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne
— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
One’s skill is never complete, one’s knowledge is forever lacking, one’s taste is invariably altered, one’s opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.
— Andrew Loomis
Don't make homes out of hollow hero's that don't know how to save themselves.
— Nikki Rowe
I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I write to understand what I know.
— Kamand Kojouri
...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding
The internet is a blessing and curse, because it's a gateway to an endless plethora of information. However it's flooded with pseudoscience, fringe science, false information, contrived statements, pure lies, & utter misrepresentations of facts.  It's essentially a situation were you're mining for genuine gold in a cave of fools gold, & while genuine gold exists, it's overwhelmed & obscured so often by imitation.
— Trevor Driggers
He who thinks he knows it all knows very little." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
— Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.
— Dan Simmons, Olympos
True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Knowledge can be powerful. But it can only be beautiful if there is more to it. If it is guided by something greater than the simple desire to enhance the potency of the mind.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword
Knowledge is the seed for thought. Knowledge, experience, and thoughts give birth to wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
on "idea technology"--Science creates ideas, science creates ways of understanding. And in the social sciences, ways of understanding ourselves. And they have an enormous influence on how we think, what we aspire to, and how we act. ......idea technology may be the most profoundly important technology that science gives us.......we do have to worry about the theories we have of human nature, because human nature will be changed by the theories we have that are designed to explain and help us understand human beings....it is only human nature to have a human nature that is very much the product of the society in which people live.--TED The way we think about work is broken
— Barry Schwartz
Knowledge is learning something from every observation wisdom is learning to use that knowledge with love. 
— Debasish Mridha
We must think of ourselves as a tribe — as an international community that has come together with a common purpose of being initiated into the process.We all have to do it together. There is a link that happens — where THE growth, my growth, depends on the others' growth around us.We can no longer take these steps by ourselves. We have created a synergistic community. We must take a step towards knowledge together.
— Alberto Villoldo
The Story Is Always ThereSometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need to ask what is their story - often people have it written on their faces and you just have to take the time out to read it.
— Delma Pryce, ABOVE AND BEYOND: My Spiritual Journey
It pains me to have all this knowledge and no one to share it with, I’d have to say its number 3 on my list. – Of what causes me the most pain.
— James Jean-Pierre
If my brain was examined, they'd call me crazy… and for a long time I thought I was. Articles, doctors and psychiatrist and a whole bunch of other people constantly tell me there’s something wrong with me, so how could I not believe it. I now realize I’m not crazy, I just have access to a different part of the brain. A part of the brain that will cause people to kill themselves, because it’s so hard to handle.
— James Jean-Pierre, Unlocking Of Secrets
... the more I seek, the less I find.
— Norris J. Lacy, The Post-Vulgate Cycle: The Merlin Continuation
Mental slavery is a cheap & easy to find addiction. Knowledge stimulates mental faculties immune system.
— Freedom Goodbird
Knowledge stimulates mental faculties
— Freedom Goodbird
Every man is insane, however only a few actually have true insanity.
— Aaron Russo
So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.
— G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
I am as knowledgeable as Socrates I know nothing. 
— Debasish Mridha
The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them, or onto you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk if the world back to their internal lair, intact and as is, for the benefit of the rest if the brain.
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Many have knowledge and only few have wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Knowledge lets you swim and wisdom lets you fly.
— Debasish Mridha
Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.
— Dada Bhagwan
Knowledge will help you to gain wisdom wisdom will open your mind to being kind. 
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is borrowed wisdom is earned. 
— Debasish Mridha
The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be the same thing with any other language when it becomes dead. The best Greek linguist that now exists does not understand Greek so well as a Grecian plowman did, or a Grecian milkmaid; and the same for the Latin, compared with a plowman or a milkmaid of the Romans; and with respect to pronunciation and idiom, not so well as the cows that she milked. It would therefore be advantageous to the state of learning to abolish the study of the dead languages, and to make learning consist, as it originally did, in scientific knowledge.
— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.
— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The Angry Face" cannot deliver the knowledge correctly often!
— Sultan Alzahrani
For a great many skeptics are put to waste. But this is meant in the sense that which they vainly focus their energy on ridiculing a certain tiny denomination of Biblical fundamentalism, a denomination seated just one chair away from unbelief; they, the skeptics, cannot believe because they are the most literal of fundamentalists: of those that which must interpret Scripture only by means of a sort of obsolete and dead script of intellectual incompetence. By all means, this is supposed to happen - Scripture states of itself that all thought and interpretation is folly without the Holy Spirit - but on the other hand, it seems, ironically, that if one thinks that the Bible is, in its true essence, an outdated text, he doesn't know much about the world around him nor those who live in it. Either that, or he doesn't know much about what it says in relation to the world around him nor to those who live in it. It's as though he, too, is dead to the world and it to him. He has no spirit: he can only possibly understand Scripture as deceased rather than the modern world's very living narrative.
— Criss Jami
A seed of knowledge exist in any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!
— Deyth Banger
The Angry Face, cannot deliver the knowledge correctly often!
— Sultan Alzahrani
When you hoard knowledge, you deprive yourself of blessings and growth.
— Kemi Sogunle
I know nothing,” I say, cheerfully.“You never seem to. Have you ever wondered why that is?”“It’s very deliberate. I’ve found that knowledge is usually a burden. I prefer to be surprised and then eventually horrified.
— Matthew Norman, Domestic Violets
God has been pushed aside by the non-Self complex. Vibrations have arisen from vibrations. ‘We’ now give you the Knowledge of how to stop the vibrations.
— Dada Bhagwan
All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge ‘Knows’ it too.
— Dada Bhagwan
Every action (‘doing’) causes bondage. ‘Doing’ is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, ‘action’ of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
— Dada Bhagwan
This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the ‘real’ thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results).
— Dada Bhagwan
the answers you look for are within you and around you
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom: the tripartite force in the pursuit of Divine Access
Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Telling you how I know…what I know…it could make things worse than they already are…for all of us
— Dennis Sharpe, Saturday Night To Infinity
The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk of the world back to their internal lair, intact and as is, for the benefit of the rest of the brain.
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Seek knowledge from the Great Spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sacred souls with humility, seek knowledge from the Great Spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.
— Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
I don't wear the opinions of others anymore, I learnt to dress myself.
— Nikki Rowe
when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
About my father.....My father was a very simple person. When I was small I never understood why he is so simple actually I disliked it. He use to go to office and return late and have dinner with us. I use to think he never stood for me on anything. But he was the person who uses to take me to the market for Diwali shopping. He uses to give me 20 Rs to eat at school when he had only 30. He tried to fulfill all my wishes in his range. He uses to take me on his bicycle after school tuition and walk while making me sit on bicycle. He uses to scare away lizards for me. He uses to play with me. He was the one who told me to work hard when I failed. He never scolded me for studies but only when I killed an insect intentionally. He was the one who taught me physics and mathematics.Once he found a wounded parrot on the road and he bought him home. He brought medicine for him and applied it on his wounds. Later on a cat took that parrot and he ran after her but the parrot died. He did not had proper food for three four days.He spent each and every penny of his earning for our happiness and never forgot to return any pending amount. He use to talk to us but very less and joke sometimes. His style was very different, we use to tell him to use dye or color on his hairs but he always refused. And when he smiled and laughed he doesn’t stop. For every question he had one answer:-“TRUST GOD HE WILL DO EVERYTHING,HE IS THE ONE WHO DOES EVERYTHING”. He uses to discuss with us lot on Bhagwat Gita. Once he told me:- “ Bade prem se milna jag mae sabse aye insaan na jane kis vesh mae tujse mil jayen bhagwaan(meet each person with full love as you never know in which form god will come in front of you)”.To that I replied:-“ But according to Bhagwat gita this is kalyug and all will deceive you if you do that”. He never drunk alcohol or had non-veg.His habits were like –“If he don’t want to do something he will not do it”. But later on he started consulting me (A foolish person like me).I use to shout at him each time I was leaving home as he use to put my wallet at some secret safe place. And when he had not kept it even I use to say “you must have kept it”. He just kept quiet. But later I came to know about the place and it was always the same and I myself realized that why am I shouting at him. Once he said to me “ bache apne aap he sekhtae hain(Children learn by themselves)”. I daily use to woke up walk up to him and say something and then lie down beside him and sleep again. I had lot of fights with him and he was never angry on me. He was just realizing that I am becoming responsible son and we had lot of dreams together and we use to plan a lot.His smile, his eyes, his habits, his innocence, his politeness , his sense of responsibility , his teachings , his knowledge ,his humble nature, his moral values, his love for humans and animals, being non arrogant , no anger, he was never hungry for money , his voice :-“ hello Sonu beta , theak ho ( My Son – Sonu , are you fine)” , his watch, his mobile case, his phone, his shoes, his specs , his laugh, his jokes and all the qualities that were infinite.
— Amit Dixit
From one thing, know ten thousand things.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Dare to research on the originality of any information.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.
— Norton Juster
Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?
— Pamela Dean, The Dubious Hills
God is knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is light.God is light.God is knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not accept any information without a deep research on the origin.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The love for literature is the key to knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature is a sacred knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The love for literature is a great light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The desire for knowledge begins with searching and seeking.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The longer the wondering, the longer the writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Positive madness leads to new knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Creativity is the key to discovery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I love to read for my pleasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The knowledge of God is beginning of all knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A search for knowledge is a search for the truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge gives shows us a direction education gives us power to walk. 
— Debasish Mridha
Literature is sacred knowledge
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The world needs all types of minds.
— Temple Grandin
The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.
— Ken Liu, The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
Explore. Search. Seek.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The law of circulation is the power of communication.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No man has all the knowledge on any subject at any time." - Rev., Dr. John Q. Kenzy - I added to Dr, Kenzy's quote as follows: "So then we can all stand to learn more about what we know or what we think we know." C. R. Lord
— Dual Authorship.
Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.
— Unarine Ramaru
She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn’t know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don’t know and you don’t know you know and you don’t know you don’t know. She may not know what she does know.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Knowledge is like a vast ocean. It is inexhaustible quest!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is vast like ocean. It is inexhaustible quest!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sun enlightens everyone, but the light of knowledge enlightens those who are actively seeking the light.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is acquired by diligent study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There so much to learn from a single book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is like a vast ocean.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is acquired by diligent study. But wisdom is given by the revere of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to be informed than to be ignorant.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is sad that people seek money more than wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The knowledge of the Holy One is the key to all knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To know my soul is my greatest knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is considered [True] Knowledge? There should be solution from all sides, there should be no contradiction. It is a non-contradicting principle when a spoken sentence will be the same even after fifty years; there will be no contradictions.
— Dada Bhagwan
Union with [True] Knowledge is ‘Principle’ [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is ‘non principle’ [absence of principle].
— Dada Bhagwan
Decided knowledge is not called ‘knowledge’. Decided knowledge is called Principle.
— Dada Bhagwan
Knowledge’ may be there but ‘correctness’ is required along with it. If you have ‘knowledge’ but don’t have the ‘correctness’; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!
— Dada Bhagwan
You have to want the book enough to read it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).
— Dada Bhagwan
I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.
— Cecelia Ahern, Flawed
To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.
— Criss Jami
Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message is received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
— Francis Bacon
Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.
— Criss Jami
By thinking of things you could understand them.
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough
— Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy
There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.
— Bram Stoker
We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
— John F. Kennedy
Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.
— Pamela Dean
HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?” the Voice demanded.“I look at things and think about them,” Folly replied. “And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
To uncover new knowledge, and to find the truth, one must dare venture into the unknown.
— Theodore Volgoff, The Pool
Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
— Francis Bacon
Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?
— Dada Bhagwan
Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge).
— Dada Bhagwan
What comes from experience is knowledge,what comes naturally is wisdom.
— NITYA MORE
We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.
— Amit Kalantri
The Best films are a small amount, some films learn us things which we won't forget, others just show us one of the things which we already know others just lose our time. But which are the best? and Which you will choose?.. Are the best two questions you must ask yourself before you start watching a film!
— Deyth Banger
If you search enough, you will find.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Search. Search.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Isn't it a good thing we don't know everything? If we did, we wouldn't have a reason to have curiosity, and curiosity is like imagination, taking us back to the time when we were just children in our own fantasylands.
— Jule Warner
It is difficult to learn what you do not enjoy. So love every bit of knowledge and enjoy every moment.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is the ultimate secret of courage.
— Debasish Mridha
Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy
The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest
I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.
— Criss Jami
Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.
— J.R. Rim
The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We know amazingly little about what happens beneath our feet. It is fairly remarkable to think that Ford has been building cars and baseball has been playing World Series for longer than we have known that the Earth has a core. And of course the idea that the continents move about on the surface like lily pads has been common wisdom for much less than a generation. Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, "we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.
— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth.
— Criss Jami
Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.”Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows
— Grace Willows
Suffering is a form of knowledge. It tells us what is wrong with our world.
— David Smail, Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling
This human body is the perpetual home of God. You will die one day. But in succession within this human body this phenomenon of Supreme knowledge will continue. But these are very tough to understand. Listen, this life is all. You have to do everything within this life. Nothing is in the sky, everything is within this body.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
I know I’m not the only one whose life is a conditional clausehanging from something to do with spring and one tall room  and the tremble of my phone.I’m not the only one that love makes feel like a dozenflapping bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind.
— Noah Warren
Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.
— Nicholas Wiseman
Every child ought to know the light of knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Seek knowledge of thy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is not limited to any age
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Begin to acquire knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The more you read, the better you are informed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything we experience in life is designed to shape our characters.
— Delma Pryce, ABOVE AND BEYOND: My Spiritual Journey
Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain…your thoughts…your ideas…engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.
— Wes Adamson, Imagination By Moonlight: living life boldly and successfully
The more I read, the less I know.
— Zeshan Ali Sheikh
Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.
— Grace Willows
I seek and search for the light of knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
— Thomas Sowell
The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.
— Robin Hobb, Golden Fool
Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf
— Marvela Dawnay
Positive energy radiates from every word you share to a magnitude that can not be measured on scale. The vibrations he sends your way are received and absorbed into the very core of your existence. The power within his words quench the areas of your spirit that only God knows. Mortality thrives on the very essence of Godly Love
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.
— John Brunner, The Crucible of Time
Anything that just adds information you can't use is plain dangerous. Anyway, there's too much of everything of this kind, that's come home to me, too much history and culture to keep track of, too many details, too much news, too much example, too much influence, too many guys who tell you to be as they are, and all this hugeness, abundance, turbulence, Niagara Falls torrent. Which who is supposed to interpret? Me? I haven't got that much head to master it all. I get carried away. It doesn't give my feelings enough of a chance if I have to store up and become like an encyclopedia. Why, just as a question of time spent in getting prepared for life, look! a man could spent forty, fifty, sixty years like that inside the walls of his own being. And all high conversation would take place within those walls. And all achievement would stay within those walls. And all glamour too. And even hate, monstrousness, enviousness, murder, would be inside them. This would be only a terrible, hideous dream about existing. It's better to dig ditches and hit other guys with your shovel than die in the walls.
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
for to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy.
— Salman Rushdie
Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Knowledge is the essence of organized information systems. Wisdom is the essence of knowledge and experience.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower.
— Debasish Mridha
A seeker of knowledge is the search for wise words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The quest for knowledge is passion to study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education shouldn’t be the prison of known knowledge, but it should be the bridge to find the yet unknown universe of knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha
I am Chandubhai’ is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does ‘charging’ of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of ‘who I am?’.
— Dada Bhagwan
To understand God, is to Love Him. You can't say you love God if you don't know Him. First you must know yourself, to experience God, then you will know Him for who He really is.
— ELW-Reta Barnes
In the time before Gnan (time before 1958 when Dada Bhagwan got manifested) there was obstinacy within me. ‘I’ discovered that obstinacy does not let the light of Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) to come through. Then I saw all that obstinacy, and it was destroyed. Thereafter the Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) manifested. One has to observe one’s own self that where lies the obstinacies. The Self is an observatory itself.
— Dada Bhagwan
I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
Know the history of the great ancestors.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A person with a big ego usually knows very little.
— Eraldo Banovac
Now, the atonement of Christ is the most basic and fundamental doctrine of the gospel, and it is the least understood of all our revealed truths. Many of us have a superficial knowledge and rely upon the Lord and his goodness to see us through the trials and perils of life. But if we are to have faith like Enoch and Elijah we must believe what they believed, know what they knew, and live as they lived.
— Bruce R. McConkie
Self-education is the greatest self-liberation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for ‘Knowledge’ is a state free of all attachments (vitragta).
— Dada Bhagwan
In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. ‘Gnani’ has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the ‘Gnani’s’ grace.
— Dada Bhagwan
The scriptures are the instruments and how to use these instruments is a science itself. One goes wandering around for infinite lives because he doesn’t have the knowledge of this science!
— Dada Bhagwan
This worldly knowledge is not called (Real) Knowledge. It is worldly knowledge. The scriptural knowledge is known as the instrumental knowledge. The knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is Real ‘Knowledge’. Scriptures themselves are the instruments and the knowledge within the scriptures is also an instrument; whereas, the ‘knowledge’ of the Self is the goal [to attain Pure Soul]!
— Dada Bhagwan
I’d venture to guess that a list of things you know nothing about could fill volumes.
— Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge