Quotes on “knowledge”

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

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.

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.

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

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.