Knowledge Quotes

"The mind and heart grow by what they feed upon."

"Our Creator has made us incapable of being satisfied with ignorance."

"No truth is so powerful as that discovered through one's own experience."

"One moment of understanding may be worth a lifetime of wisdom."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a ship without a rudder."

"Knowledge without compassion is merely accumulation."

"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. Knowledge is good, but there are higher things than knowledge."

"Knowledge without compassion is merely the accumulation of emptiness."

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads."

"The beautiful thing about knowledge is that it is never complete."

"To understand one's self is to understand all humanity."

"We don't receive wisdom; we have to discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us."

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest endeavor of mankind."

"The most important knowledge is knowledge of oneself."

"The mind is always tempted to be satisfied too easily."

"True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"I have always had the opinion that when everything is known, there will be nothing left to do but contemplate."

"There is a kind of hunger in true knowledge."

"The most fundamental principle is that we are responsible for our own understanding."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"The mind's deepest desire is to comprehend the world."

"Know thyself. A wise maxim for all, but an especially bitter draught for those of us who have much to learn."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a sword without a hilt; it cuts the hand that wields it."

"Knowledge is the understanding of things, not merely the knowing of them."

"Knowledge is power."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"The soul is refined by knowledge and experience."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious"

"The best method for discovering what ought to be is to study what is"