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The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.
— Watchman Nee, The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation
It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.
— Abhijit Naskar
Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything
— Stewart Stafford
It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.
— Dele Ayo Bankole
The purpose of education should be character-building.
— Abhijit Naskar
Never confuse belief with knowledge.
— Abhijit Naskar
Knowledge is a mighty tool, but how it will affect a person is unpredictable.
— Greg Mongrain, To Kill a Sorcerer
Before you start your full day of watching Equestrian Square Dancing, Soccer Balling, Hoop Dreaming, Cricket Batting, Rugby Punching, Volleyball Chopping, Skateboard Falling, Martial Arts Bowing, Bicycle Peddlers, and College Football Hecklers, maybe we have time to learn somethingScientifically.
— James Hauenstein
It is one thing to believe and another to know.
— Abhijit Naskar
Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge.
— Abhijit Naskar
In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it.
— Munia Khan
Education is a relentless voyage of discovery.
— Abhijit Naskar
...'By wisdom a house is built up,And by discernment it is made secure.By knowledge its rooms are filledWith all sorts of precious and pleasant treasures.'– Proverbs 24:3, 4
— Jehovah, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant—so that he constantly called different things by that name—but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of ‘pain’—in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Knowledge without understanding is a great loss because it is akin to having given a device without the manual on how to operate or use it.
— Norhafsah Hamid, Trying to be Muslim
I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way—but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn’t exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The power of knowledge is so great and forceful, if only we knew.
— Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics
The quality of knowledge youbring into the relationshipdetermines the quality of therelationship.
— Dele Ayo Bankole
Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
You must consciously choose what you know. Knowledge fromthis present social system is notdesigned to help you succeed.
— Dele Ayo Bankole
Knowledge is what you know,that gives you an edge overthe ordinary person.
— Dele Ayo Bankole
Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
— Bertrand Russell
Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.
— Abhijit Naskar
Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts. 
— Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
This guy and this guy and this guy… knew a lot of but couldn't find the words which could explain the "knowledge".
— Deyth Banger
A library is more precious than a bank.
— Abhijit Naskar
Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.
— Abhijit Naskar
THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away...
— Emily Dickinson
The talk of sin is of course to many a big turn-off; to others, an even bigger myth - because in reality, sin is like the spiritual equivalent of a microscopic parasite, or a virus, or better yet even, an infectious disease. And just as one might never know of, until visiting a competent doctor, the tiny pathogens progressively eroding one's body, so we might never know that in sin we are eroding our being and losing direction until hearing the Word of God rightfully applied. Therefore I ask, which of the doctors would then be the more competent: the one who finds the problem and gives the solution, or the one who willfully ignores the problem (or rather finds the problem when it is much too late)? Seldom does anyone write off the knowledge of medicine for the physical body as primitive practice, so neither must the knowledge of the Word of God for one's spiritual well-being remain written off as primitive practice - quite the opposite really. As it is written thus: 'Lean not on your own understanding.
— Criss Jami
If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.
— George Orwell, 1984
When you have knowledge, patience, and passion, and pair those with hard work, you will find success -- but don’t ever forget about kindness.
— Adam Kirk Smith
Who controls the words controls your thoughts.
— Heather  Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
Everything that you wish to know, or desire for life, exists in you. All you have to do is take your attention inward and begin your search within.
— Roshan Sharma
Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.
— Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.
— Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What is the value and worth of knowledge? My teachings have taught me that many will die for lack of knowledge. If knowledge and mindset are key ingredients to life - why do some reject it? Remove know from knowledge and you are standing on the ledge. When are we going to rescue ourselves from the ledge?
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima
— Scott Westerfeld, The World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues
I was to blame for not having pressed my point. I had given in to Authority when I believed I was right. That is another example of How Not To Do Research. I note it here as a warning to the young. If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position.
— Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections
Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity.
— Keith Allan Moore
I never knew what it meant being a slave until I quitted religion
— Moses Tiko Lungu
Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
By studying yesterday, you will understand today.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I always find intelligent people in the comments.
— Anas Khan
Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no Frigate like a book.
— Emily Dickinson
Education does not exist for the benefit of students or for the benefit of their parents. It's exists for the benefit of social order. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from education.
— Saminu Kanti
If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
— Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our consciousness. Most of us find it difficult to know what we are feeling about anything. In any situation it is almost impossible to know what is really happening to us. This is one of the penalties of being human and having a brain so swarming with interesting suggestions and ideas and self-distrust.
— Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
The path of life is strewn with many perils and the folly of knowledge is one of the greatest dangers. Wisdom is a treacherous weapon, little master, for it is sundered from compassion. All too often the end of the journey gains more import than it should and the wise become blind to the road and the method of their passing.
— Robin Jarvis, Thomas
When you look at the external reality, you may assume you know everything, but when you close your eyes and try to look into the darkness of your internal reality, all the knowledge of the external life fails to create a way out of the darkness.
— Roshan Sharma
When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.
— Roshan Sharma
He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.
— Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level.
— Roshan Sharma
Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. ... If it had at least enriched the earth; if it had given birth to… what? A hill? A rocket? But no. Nothing will have taken place. I can still see the hedge of hazel trees flurried by the wind and the promises with which I fed my beating heart while I stood gazing at the gold-mine at my feet: a whole life to live. The promises have all been kept. And yet, turning an incredulous gaze towards that young and credulous girl, I realise with stupor how much I was gypped.
— Simone de Beauvoir, Force Of Circumstance
Very often history is a means of denying the past. Denying the past is to refuse to recognise its integrity. To fit it, force it, function it, to suck out the spirit until it looks the way you think it should. We are all historians in our small way.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.
— R.L. Hemlock
The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to imaginesuch a state of things is painful to us! Restless discovering and divining has such an attraction for us, and has grown as indispensable to us as is to the lover his unrequited love, which he would at no price relinquish for a state of indifference – perhaps,indeed, we too are unrequited lovers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Knowledge is learning something new everyday. Wisdom is letting go of some bad habits everyday.
— Farshad Asl
Education being a change of behavior as a result of experience brings about wisdom and knowledge. While knowledge comes from what we read or study, wisdom comes from what we observe and experience.The purpose of education is not to affect negatively but to positively affect. When I see people using whatever wisdom or knowledge they have to cheat, I see an abuse of education all borne out of ignorance.
— OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One who knows and knows that he knows…His horse of wisdom will reach the skies.One who knows, but doesn’t know that he knows…He is fast asleep, so you should wake him up!One who doesn’t know, but knows that he doesn’t know…His limping mule will eventually get him home.One who doesn’t know and doesn’t know that he doesn’t know…He will be eternally lost in his hopeless oblivion!
— Ibn Yamin (Translated by Niayesh Afshordi)
In order for knowledge to be of value, there must be an internal process of understanding how that knowledge applies to reality. Furthermore, that understanding must be translated into a corresponding change of behavior. This is the process of learning. Learning is the process of adapting knowledge and experience into a change of behavior.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.
— Max Weber
We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
J.I. Packer says that we have "conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God." We have "allowed God to become remote." Christians who don't have an expanding, deepening knowledge of God are like players who have no coach, no rule book, no game schedule, no playing field, no training program. They are depending on one thing to win - uniforms.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
We are wise when we live according to what we have come to understand. Wisdom is not altogether about the amount of understanding that we possess. Wisdom is about living according to the understanding that we have already discovered. Wisdom is doing that which we understand. Wisdom comes only in doing. It is an easy thing to gain knowledge and experience, yet harder to understand and become wise.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Liberty creates an environment where all living beings within a society have an equal opportunity to exercise freedom. An equal opportunity to exercise freedom would further infer that, in liberty, living beings have equal access to knowledge and experience. Knowledge and experience are both inseparable from freedom. Liberty is balanced societal freedom and may also be considered balanced knowledge and experience. With equal access to knowledge and experience, living beings have an equal opportunity to enhance their abilities. Liberty is perceived as true freedom because it maximizes the opportunities for most living beings within a society.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
Power is the ability to bring to past a desired result. The exercise of power requires action. The key to power is in understanding how to use that which is already available to us in order to accomplish a sought after goal. The power comes from understanding and acting according to that understanding. When we live according to Truth, we thereby bring power to light. Yet we are never powerful because of ourselves, it is Truth alone that is powerful. We are, therefore, powerful only in proportion to our understanding in light of our situation. Understanding who, what, when, where, how, or why in light of our current situation is what determines the balance of power. Power is the effect of understanding. Therefore, the one who seeks to be powerful must first seek out knowledge and experience by the means of questioning and curiosity. Only through knowledge and experience may we obtain understanding. Only through understanding may we obtain power, and understanding is the power of the wise.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
We are here on planet Earth to learn lessons and to grow in loving knowledge.
— Pamela Cummins, Learn the Secret Language of Dreams
So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego.
— Kathy McClary
You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert's vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!
— Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we’re not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don’t have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.
— Warren Ellis, Crécy
How you get to know is what I want to know.
— Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.
— Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn
Knowledge deepens with experience.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
People who give the best are those who give of themselves – your time, talents, words, knowledge.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
I love people that read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. They want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it.
— Nicholas Browne
He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Knowledge is courage understanding brings calmness and humility 
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you fell on your knees late at night?
— Christopher Morley, Inward, Ho!
Everybody possesses knowledge and experience that is considered to be unique to them alone; therefore, everyone has something to learn from everyone else.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's too late.
— Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life
Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others.
— Joseph P. Kauffman, Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.
— John Cheever
Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Our perception is our window to the world, and we need to wipe the dust off of our window often so we can continue to see through it clearly.
— Joseph P. Kauffman, Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Many people have failing relationships because they have not really fallen in love with each other, but they have fallen for the mental images they have created of one another. We assume we know our partner, we think about them nonstop, creating many different ideas of who they are, what they like, and how we will be together, then as soon as our partner does something that doesn’t fit with our mental image of them, we become sad, upset, confused, or heart broken. Our partner did not cause our suffering; we caused it, through our false perceptions and mental images.
— Joseph P. Kauffman, Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
The majority of people in modern society feel separated—from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.
— Joseph P. Kauffman, Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
When we think of something, we create a mental image of it, and our image is then always filtered through our mental perception. We may meet someone one day when they are in a bad mood, we then make a false assumption that this person does not like us. We have created an image of this person, and now every time we meet them, we associate this person with our negative mental image of them. We don’t interact with them as they are in this moment; we interact with how we think they are.
— Joseph P. Kauffman, Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble. 
— Debasish Mridha
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred
— Christina Engela
Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
When you initiate something creative and develop your policies that are solution based, you would then be able to flourish audiences who can heavily rely on your ideas for future success.
— Saaif Alam
Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do?Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn’t they just be the same confused people they were before they died?
— Samantha Hunt, Mr. Splitfoot
Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
If we had less people who don't know what they are talking about acting like they know what they are talking about, then that's one step closer to making the world a better place.
— Ryan Letourneau
The earth is round!
— Gandalf
Knowledge is a unique kind of property, indeed: you can share it with others, while still possessing it.
— Eraldo Banovac
Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does.
— kambiz shabankareh
Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter
— Barbara Wersba, Walter: The Story of a Rat
Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.
— Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
Movement is knowledge. Art is perception
— Armin Houman
The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence.
— Steven Magee
Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.
— Debasish Mridha
We spend so much of our time lost in thought, trying to label everything as isolated objects and events. Though we fail to realize that our thoughts are incapable of defining anything in its totality. We can think about a situation for as long as we want to, but our thoughts will never know the situation exactly as it exists.
— Joseph P. Kauffman, Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Simplest explanation usually the right one
— Kirsten Beyer, Protectors
Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.
— Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We’re starting to behave as if we’ve reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.
— Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong?
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even subjects that are known are known only to a few
— Aristotle
The amount of understanding produced by a theory is determined by how well it meets the criteria of adequacy–testability, fruitfulness, scope, simplicity, conservatism–because these criteria indicate the extent to which a theory systematizes and unifies our knowledge.
— Theodore Schick Jr., How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
There is no sobornost without crucifixion, because it is through pain that one acquires that deep knowledge that has nothing to do with books and education… that deep knowledge that is given by God and by God alone that builds the foundation of unity. People thus united are transparent, and it is in those depths that one finds, I repeat, the foundation of sobornost… of unity.
— Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Sobornost: Experiencing Unity of Mind, Heart and Soul
An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it.
— Gugu Mona
It’s there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty
Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse.” To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: “ ’Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ballo be spelt with adouble L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Cheirou and Beltiou, and the superlatives Cheiriotou and Beliotou, to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science; but as to philosophical discourses, they always divert and cheer up those that entertain them, and never deject them or make them sad.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The word "Wisdom" was for the people who have high level of inferiority complex and who are battling with some hard times.
— Bikash Bhandari
Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.
— Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.
— Debasish Mridha
Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
I no longer know what the Lord wants of us... Even what we're doing here seems pointless to me! What's the use of the books I've brought with me? All those bookcases in the house? The things we learn, the things we discuss? Not so long ago, I was convinced that cultivating our minds would help us change the course of this world. I told myself, 'We women should change. Then we might be able to curb the folly of men.' I don't believe that now. As soon as I leave Magdala, as soon as I spend a day in the streets of Tarichea, I get the feeling we're becoming more and more learned and more and more useless.
— Marek Halter, Mary of Nazareth
How would you ever come to know God’s name for that star? – You wouldn’t, He holds it close, the boy said. It’s a thing you’ll never know. It’s a lesson that sometimes we’re meant to settle for ignorance. Right there’s what mostly comes of knowledge [boy tips his chin at the battlefield]
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Being ninety nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.
— Hasse Jerner
What does what we know or don't know have to do with the laws that govern the world?
— Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Being ninty nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.
— Hasse Jerner
If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.
— Debasish Mridha
You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from the majority of whistle-blower's are not being upheld, that you are living in a seriously dysfunctional society.
— Steven Magee
When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?
— Markus Gabriel, Why the World Does Not Exist
Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star
It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering.
— Kat Lahr, Anatomy Of Illumination
It's amazing how the more you read, the less you know.
— Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here
We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.
— Christopher Langan
You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
It is always healthy to be honest.
— Amit Kalantri
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
— Amit Kalantri
Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a serious study of human knowledge, or theory, or belief, if undertaken with a critical but not a cruel mind, would in the end yield some secret, some valuable permanent insight, into the nature of life and the true end of man.
— Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men: Seven Lectures
the true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,—not the first thought that comes, so the true passion is disciplined and tested passion,—not the first passion that comes. The first that come are the vain, the false, the treacherous; if you yield to them they will lead you wildly and far, in vain pursuit, in hollow enthusiasm, till you have no true purpose and no true passion left. Not that any feeling possible to humanity is in itself wrong, but only wrong when undisciplined.
— John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies
There is a difference between information and knowledge, and the most important role of the library is not providing access to information; it is supporting, enhancing, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge - in other words, education.
— Kathleen McCook
Knowledge is the Best Weapon, Experience is the Best Teacher,Respect is the Best Admirer, But Life Is the Best Answer
— Look Im A Cat
I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.
— Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer.
— Eric Roxas
Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.
— Amit Kalantri
I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.
— Umberto Eco
Knowledge is the physical manifestation of consciousness.
— R.A.Delmonico
Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions.
— Debasish Mridha
Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world.
— Debasish Mridha
the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity tat it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley
— David Nicholls, Starter for Ten
The exchange rate for ideas is infinite.
— R.A.Delmonico
The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.
— Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
The more knowledge that distributed, the more people know, so the more worthless that knowledge.
— Danny Listyo
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.
— Amit Kalantri
Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement.
— Amit Kalantri
Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.
— Amit Kalantri
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.
— Amit Kalantri
Power means different things to different people. For poets and politicians, words are power. For some, money is power. For most of Earth’s history, weaponry and resources have constituted power. My grandfather always told me—and I believed for many years—that knowledge was power. But the funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it’s the people above and all around you who get the final say.
— M.L. Wang, Theonite: Planet Adyn
Knowledge is strength. Ignorance is the kiss of death.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic.
— Amit Kalantri
It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.
— Criss Jami
Knowledge gained is as useless as prideif filed away and never applied.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.
— Amit Kalantri
This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ in which it is written that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that.
— Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent.
— Criss Jami
Travel teaches as much as a teacher.
— Amit Kalantri
Foreign to knowledge, mystery to senses, alien to emotion: LOVE.
— Gabriella Jording
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?For any seemingly "good" thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within
Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge.
— Amit Kalantri
Know the word of God not in order that by doing so you might be saved; know it rather so that unlike the many you are not easily deceived. You may find that, evidently, a great many of the so-called novel ideas of the present were made without a clue that 'God', if you will, already laid profound discourse on or against them ages ago: no man has gone against God in such a way that God, from the beginning, did not already expect him to. Then, insofar as this, you will remain clear in that it is not at all that the Christian should be against newness; quite the opposite really - for a major point of Christianity is about one constantly being made new in Christ - it is only that many people are not actually bringing true newness to the table, and this is precisely because they do not first apply (or let alone even know) the wisdom of old.
— Criss Jami
The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.
— Amit Kalantri
Enjoy without injury, live without loss.
— Amit Kalantri
In life, you learned that not all white people are racist, not all black folks are criminals, let's admit it and love one another..
— Werley Nortreus
You can't suddenly know something just by assembling a committee of words! That's it! I'll assemble your comittee!
— Hubert J, Farnsworth
Future has a scheming, naughty and intelligent mind. It is never fully predictable!
— Amit Chatterjee
My mind is a collection of truths that I have extracted from greatest thinkers throughout human history
— Diego Belmonte
If I were to go back in time with the knowledge that I have today about Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), I would invest the money into changing the electrical characteristics of my body and exhaust that route first, particularly if no one else in the home is showing the condition. If everyone is sick in the home, it is probably an environmental issue that warrants expense on changing the environmental factors.
— Steven Magee
Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!
— Amit  Chatterjee
Never you fight a man that knows and understand the mysteries about God.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
Perhaps the single most enjoyable part of my researches, which covered a period of about four years, was meeting the artists themselves, the people who provide the luxuries. All of them, from tailors and boot makers to truffle hunters and champagne blenders, were happy in their work, generous with their time, and fascinating about their particular skills. To listen to a knowledgeable enthusiast, whether he's talking about a Panama hat or the delicate business of poaching foie gras in Sauternes, is a revelation, and I often came away wondering why the price wasn't higher for the talent and patience involved.
— Peter Mayle
Where there is knowledge, the rooms arefurnished with valuable, beautiful things.(GNB)
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom: the tripartite force in the pursuit of Divine Access
Life continues even if no one has proven to us the shape and size of the Earth, even if no one has informed us about the composition of air and the depth of sky.We will not float in weightlessness simply because we have not read the lesson on gravity.
— Danail Hristov, The End of the Jesus Era
Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.
— Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
— Stewart Stafford
Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.
— Moutasem Algharati
History, Geology, Psychology, Philosophy, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, Mathematics, Technology, Sociology, Biology, and the list goes on and on. If all this body of knowledge exist for human consumption, why would I specialize in only one field?
— Allan Amanyire
Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.
— Raheel Farooq
In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don't think about them, you'll be psychologically unwell. If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent.
— Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same.
— Nikki Rowe
There are things you need to know that you already know.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
People believe that Noah's Ark is a legend when we are already apart of this legend, look around what do you see?
— Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.
— Walter Moers
Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
When it comes to learning, there are no boundaries and restrictions literally; all you have to do is to start it where you are.
— Auliq-Ice
This was the end of the Renaissance. Culture, once beloved and fostered by the papacy, opened the way to dangerous freedom. Then - as now - knowledge, culture, intellectual curiosity became suspect, even dangerous to oppressive regimes: knowledge leading to engaging the mind into reasoning, culture into wanting to know more, intellectual curiosity sharpening the appetite for information, fact. Ignorance was considered safe and political oppression went hand in hand with the congregation of the Inquisition.
— Gaia Servadio, Renaissance Woman
As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.
— Dada Bhagwan
Blount sat down to the table and leaned over close to Singer. "There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time - the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this. It's like in the fifteenth century when everybody believed the world was flat and only Columbus and a few other fellows knew the truth. But it's different in that it took talent to figure that the earth is round. While the truth is so obvious it's a miracle of all history that people don't know.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do young people discover that many aspects of life are uncertain, mysterious, and even unknowable. If you have a chance to play in nature, if you are sprayed by a beetle, if the color of a butterfly's wing comes off on your fingers, if you watch a caterpillar spin its cocoon-- you come away with a sense of mystery and uncertainty. The more you watch, the more mysterious the natural world becomes, and the more you realize how little you know. Along with its beauty, you may also come to experience its fecundity, its wastefulness, aggressiveness, ruthlessness, parasitism, and its violence. These qualities are not well-conveyed in textbooks.
— Michael Crichton, Micro
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life
— Immanuel Kant
Even though I left school at age fifteen, I loved learning and continued to learn through my careers as a photojournalist, filmmaker, and explorer. I was taught that education is the great equalizer and knowledge is power. I prefer to think that knowledge is understanding; the more one knows, the less one fears.
— Marc Ashton