Quotes About Knowledge

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Nine months spent in the womb of your mother have transformed a drop of water into 'you' – hearing, seeing and thinking. Can you imagine what a lifetime spent with the Qur'?n – seeking, hearing, seeing, thinking, striving – can do for you?

The word ?if? itself, though now used in the limited sense of memorizing, includes both understanding and practice. In fact there is no English word which can accurately reflect its true and full meaning.

If thou must make a gold coin true Let thy mint these rules pursue. In the forge of continence Let the goldsmith be a man of patience, His tools be made of knowledge, His anvil made of reason;

You have seen the world and read many books, but take it from me that a snake can cast its slough but not its poison

Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.

Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking—unless it is a true understanding.

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

they had landed in the Bermudas. To those on the beach who had any knowledge of the island chain at all, the announcement would have been terrible news. The Bermudas were known, as passenger Sylvester Jourdain noted, as "the most dangerous, infortunate, and most forlorn place in the world." Small wonder, then, that they had never been inhabited, as he wrote, "by any Christian or heathen people."3

Know the difference between its and it's, between lay and lie: you lay the form rejection slip on the table; you lie on the bed filled with the anguish of self-doubt and feelings of utter worthlessness.

The trick is to find out what we know, challenge what we know, own what we know, and then give it away in language: I love my brother, I hate winter, I always lose my keys.

Contained in the raven's untold tale was some knowledge, some wisdom the bird had gathered in his flight. Secret even from God. Perhaps the birds were telling it still, and no ears to hear.

Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,' the Professor said, patiently.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

A person can't put a price on somethin' as valuable as experience an' knowledge.

You can know things all you like, and someday you might believe them.

You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself.

You can know things all you like, but that doesn't mean you believe them.