Knowledge Quotes

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.