Quotes and sayings about tag  knowledge

133 Quotes

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

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ronald E. Osborn

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Howard Nemerov

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

Seneca

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Ian McEwan

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

Terence McKenna

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

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

Terry Goodkind

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Immanuel Kant

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

Voltaire

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

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

W.E.B. Du Bois

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

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