Knowledge Quotes

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.