Quotes About Knowledge

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in a marketable product, a useful machine, a prescribable pill, a formidable weapon, or any direct gain.