Top 1200 Knowledge Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know.

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

You have a wisdom inside you - listen for it. You have a light inside you - feel its glow. You have the power to speak and act and make things manifest in the world - let your wisdom and light guide you as you do.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a "Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for a deeper knowledge of God as the God of Hope in every arena of life and throughout the earth. They are the hope reformers that God will activate to usher the genuine presence and wisdom of Jesus into all the spheres of life into which they are sent.

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.