100+ Eye-Opening Quotes About Knowledge & Learning

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Scientia potentia est.Knowledge is power.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care