Quotes and sayings about tag  knowledge

133 Quotes

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]

Gautama Buddha

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Isaac Asimov

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

J.K. Rowling

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Gustave Flaubert

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Joe Abercrombie

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Henry James

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Henry Rollins

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Hermann Hesse

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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.

Horace Mann

The knowledge of all things is possible

Leonardo da Vinci

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