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Quotes About Knowledge

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.
~ Joshua Romqn
We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.
~ Sunday Adelaja
What is the meaning of Religion? The revelation of the hidden and unknown power of this human body, and to know that infinite power of this human body is the religion.
~ Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.
~ Ashtavakra Gita
Teaching:One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.Saying of the Prophet
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.
~ R. Joseph Hoffmann
Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.
~ Idries Shah
I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure
~ Suzanne Anderson
Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
~ Raheel Farooq
If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.
~ Immortal Technique
There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
~ Sigmund Freud
The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.
~ Sylvia Earle
My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.
~ Tupac Shakur
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
~ Erich Fromm
Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
~ Henry Louis Gates
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.
~ Marv Levy