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Quotes About Knowledge

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'
~ Adyashanti
Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
~ Albert Einstein
Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.
~ Jared Spool
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
~ George Santayana
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
~ Plato
Those who know nothing must believe everything.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
~ Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
~ William Ellery Channing
It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.
~ Jacques Pepin
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
~ Tom Stoppard
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is
~ Richard P. Feynman
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
~ Margaret Mead
The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?
~ Laura Gilpin
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
~ Garrett Hardin
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
~ Thomas Hobbes
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
~ Louis L'Amour
The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
~ Karl Pearson
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
~ Cardinal Richelieu