Quotes About Growth

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Experience alone does not create knowledge.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Knowledge is limited.

Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.