I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SocratesThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovThe things I want to know are in books, my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham LincolnThe beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.
Ray BradburyAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinWe are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya AngelouI have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Herman HesseI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnOur ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us, and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar WildeI am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeWisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Herman HesseYou did the best that you knew how. Now that you know better, you’ll do better.
Maya AngelouThe secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle OnassisThe person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil GibranI know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad AliI had therefore to remove knowledge in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel KantI hate books, they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIn a battle, all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard ShawPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsBeware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil GibranBe careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
EpictetusBeing ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleHear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin FranklinThe roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.
AristotleA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil GibranIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin FranklinTo know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
ConfuciusIf a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
Benjamin FranklinIf you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
ConfuciusWe are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin FranklinHe who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
ConfuciusDo not think of how big the universe is, it will merely hurt your head.
BuddhaAs the man who digs obtains underground water by use of a shovel, so the student attains the knowledge possessed by his preceptor through his service.
ChanakyaThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinThe way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham LincolnNo light is brighter than wisdom - wisdom is the light in the world.
BuddhaI don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham LincolnTo know that you know and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.
ConfuciusAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinAlthough modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin FranklinIf a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas HuxleyIf money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert EinsteinHe who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge, and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification.
ChanakyaThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaKnowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert EinsteinThe end of knowledge is LOVE. The end of education is character.
Sai BabaFaith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil GibranAlongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.
Sai BabaThe fact that you are willing to say "I do not understand and it is fine " is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne DyerKnowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin CoolidgeReligion is preserved by wealth, knowledge by diligent practice, a king by conciliatory words, and a home by a dutiful housewife.
ChanakyaScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantIf we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.
Abraham LincolnWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenThose who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want, not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert CamusAfter all manner of professors have done their best for us the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert CamusParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue the art of speaking well rather than doing well, but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster FullerFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganThose people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian TracyBut although all our knowledge begins with experience it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel KantLife is a culmination of the past an awareness of the present an indication of a future beyond knowledge the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles LindberghI am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
Isaac AsimovPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranMan today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.
Sai BabaThe improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas HuxleyThe very problem of mind and body suggests division, I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion morals and science, the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education in religion in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
John DeweyIt is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel KantIn the first stage of boyhood he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that he has to serve the Guru and obey him without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security, he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care, he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.
Sai BabaIf the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu