Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. John Naisbitt 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 We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. John Archibald Wheeler When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. Herbert Spencer When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. Abu Bakr Without self ...

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russell They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett 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 Those 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 Tracy To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant 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...

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. David Bohm The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. William Ralph Inge The 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 Eckhart The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Avicenna The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. Henry Ford The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. An...

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. Chanakya Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Khalil Gibran Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Khalil Gibran Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Roger Babson Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius Suppose that we are wise enough t...

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Will Durant Knowledge is the life of the mind. Abu Bakr Knowledge is true opinion. Plato Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Albert Einstein Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Anthony J. D'Angelo No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Khalil Gibran

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e. e. cummings Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. Louis L'Amour Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ralph Cudworth Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. Robert Staughton Lynd Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged a...

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 If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. Barry White I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. Jay-Z Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. Arnold H. Glasow It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its water...

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. Immanuel Kant I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Marcus Tullius Cicero I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Ruben Blades I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. Thomas Jefferson I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Plutarch If education is always to be conceived along the same a...

Depend 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 Doyle Doubt grows with knowledge. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Baltasar Gracian Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Horace Mann Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. Simone Weil Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. ...

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Leonardo da Vinci All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. Wislawa Szymborska 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 amou...