What Is Knowledge Quotes

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

I’ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that’s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I’ve been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.