K Quotes
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“Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.”
Source: Awakened India
“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.”
“Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“Knowledge is justified belief.”
“Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.”
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
“Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Knowledge is knowing everything and wisdom is becoming nothing.”
“Knowledge is knowing many things. Wisdom is applying that knowledge to life as logical solutions and new perspectives.”
“Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.”
“Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.”
“Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.”
Source: Poems of King Alfred
“Knowledge is learning without a limit.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Knowledge is life. The more informed you are, the better you are in making the best decision.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Knowledge is Life with wings”
“Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.”
“Knowledge is like a mirror. It will show you where the dirty is located, but it will never remove it for you.”
“Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.”
“Knowledge is like an ever-flowing stream of water, and where you stop to drink from it, is where you will become quenched.”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.”
“Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.”
Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor
“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”
“knowledge is like nur, a ray of light. And light cannot come and be in a dark place. Because of that, clean your hearts and your minds, so that light can come, touch, and brighten your soul,” -178”
Source: Negeri 5 Menara
“Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.”
“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
“Knowledge is like wealth; no matter how much you acquire,
There’s always somebody with more.”
Source: when the DEAD aren't Dead...: tales of terror!
“Knowledge is limited.”
Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
“Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.”
Source: Selected Prose
“Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.”
“Knowledge is many things, but it definitely is not power. “Dread” is a better word for it, I think, though I do understand how that ultimately fails as a slogan.”
Source: Notes from the Fog: Stories
“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
“Knowledge is memorized and then recalled later. Wisdom is the judge of the present moment and memorization is not necessary here. Because memorization is a reference to past events.”
“Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.”
“Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.”
Source: Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
“Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.”
“Knowledge is more important than space.”
“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Knowledge is never too dear.”
“Knowledge is no burden.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”
Source: Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
“Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself”
Source: The School and Society
“Knowledge is no lover to the closed mind.”
“Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”
Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27
“Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.”
Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge
“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense
“Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.”
“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”