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Quotes About Knowledge

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.
~ Nita Ambani
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
~ Ernst Mayr
Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
~ Leroy Hood
I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.
~ George Lucas
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
~ Warren Buffett
I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.
~ Edward Kennedy
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
~ Robert Ballard
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
~ James Smithson
Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
~ Markus Zusak
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
~ Isaac Asimov
Education is the bane of life, the foundation of society and the liberation of generations.
~ Mmanti Umoh
We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
~ Christian de Duve
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"
~ Al-Ghazali
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.
~ Eric Liddell
Whoever knows himself knows God.
~ Elijah Muhammad
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
~ Ingvar Kamprad
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Asking good questions is half of learning.
~ Elijah Muhammad