Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert EinsteinImagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert EinsteinThere is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
SocratesI only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
SocratesAnyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.
SocratesI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SocratesThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesThe truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert HubbardIf I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma GandhiTo understand everything is to forgive everything
BuddhaThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand RussellThousands of candles can be lit from a single candle and it will never reduce the power of its light... One's knowledge will never be stunt by distributing it among others.
BuddhaIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe 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 BradburyKnowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert EinsteinWe are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya AngelouKnowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen KellerI 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 HesseThe best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Baltasar GracianImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeWhat I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Helen KellerI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark TwainTeaching is the highest form of understanding.
AristotleJust as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
Alan WattsOur 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 have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.
Leonardo da VinciIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Jane AustenA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas CarlyleI 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 HesseWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinAs long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco ChanelIf you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert EinsteinThe 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 GibranEgo=1/Knowledge. More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.
Albert EinsteinLong engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
Oscar WildeEducation is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is, and why it exists at all.
Stephen HawkingI had therefore to remove knowledge in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel KantOmnipotence is not knowing how everything is done, it's just doing it.
Alan WattsIn all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand RussellFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceThere's nothing you can know that isn't known.
John LennonI hate books, they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEvery truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner and it is for you to find the other three.
ConfuciusIn 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 ShawKnowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Kahlil GibranIt ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark TwainThose who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.
ConfuciusPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsIf many years were added to my life I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes.
ConfuciusBeware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawThe greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
BuddhaA people without the knowledge of their past, history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus GarveyA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainAll our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da VinciDepend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan DoyleThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand RussellDoubt indulged and cherished is in danger of becoming denial, but if honest and bent on thorough investigation it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Ambrose BiercePerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil GibranA fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareBeing ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinThose that know do. Those that understand teach.
AristotleLife is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert LawrenceA little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Samuel ButlerTruth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement StoneIf you know to recognize that you know, If you don't know to realize that you don't know: That is knowledge.
ConfuciusHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.
PlatoEducated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
AristotleOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous HuxleyThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleHe that travels much knows much.
Thomas FullerHear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin FranklinI was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark TwainOnly the shallow know themselves.
Oscar WildeAn education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole FranceKnowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HoraceHe who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da VinciProvided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
Jane AustenThe 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 GibranWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeI wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance and affection to be art.
Kahlil GibranReal knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
ConfuciusIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin FranklinSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleTo know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
ConfuciusYou know more of a road by having traveled it, than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt'Tis better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of.
William ShakespeareThe word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Carl JungIf 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.
ConfuciusThrough zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost, let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
BuddhaAmerica is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will RogersDoing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonPatriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark TwainDo 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.
ConfuciusAbility will never catch up with the demand for it.
ConfuciusAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinKnowledge is recognition of something absent, it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George SantayanaThe so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
AristotleIgnorance is the curse of God, knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareAlthough modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas HuxleyIgnorance and error are necessary to life like bread and water.
Anatole FranceI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SocratesA toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance, or insignificance.
T. S. EliotIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel JohnsonMany people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen KellerWhere there is shouting there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da VinciThere are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar WildeThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert EinsteinA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltThe essence of knowledge is having it to apply it, not having it to confess your ignorance.
ConfuciusWe hate some persons because we do not know them, and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb ColtonA woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane AustenSeldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane AustenEvil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone WeilI can find in my undergraduate classes bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl SaganHe who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge, and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification.
ChanakyaTo Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
AristotleThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaYou knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
Herman HesseKnowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert EinsteinThe search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. KennedyThe knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.
Meister EckhartWith regard to excellence, it is not enough to know but we must try to have and use it.
AristotleThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert EinsteinThere are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da VinciDogmatism and skepticism are both in a sense absolute philosophies, one is certain of knowing the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand RussellWhoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert EinsteinThere is no darkness, but ignorance.
William ShakespeareIf knowledge can create problems it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac AsimovCherish that which is within you and shut off that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
ZhuangziReligion is preserved by wealth, knowledge by diligent practice, a king by conciliatory words, and a home by a dutiful housewife.
ChanakyaWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. EliotKnowledge about life is one thing, effective occupation of a place in life with its dynamic currents passing through your being is another.
William JamesI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantI 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 AsimovThe 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 DeweyIn 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 Baba