975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” — Clifford Stoll

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“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.” — Dante Alighieri

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“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.” — Herbert Spencer

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“If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.” — Ramakrishna

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“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.” — Simone Weil

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“To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” — Marilyn vos Savant

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“This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.” — Prem Rawat

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“Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.” — David Bohm

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“Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.” — Ernest Holmes

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“The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.” — Matthew Simpson

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“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.” — Herodotus

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“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” — Immanuel Kant

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“Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.” — Avicenna

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“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.” — Pericles

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“We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.” — Jack LaLanne

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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” — Vince Lombardi

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“Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.” — Matthew Simpson

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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” — Peter Drucker

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“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” — Stephen Ambrose

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“A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.” — Conrad Black

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