Quotes By Catogory
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge”.
―Daniel J.
“People who fail to understand want to know, but those who know, refuse to understand”.
―B. S. O. Kpechi
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power”.
―Lao Tzu
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
―Frederick Douglass
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
—George Bernard Shaw
“Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory”.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
—Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge”.
—Confucius
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
―John Locke
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”.
—Marcus Garvey
“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
“Knowledge with action converts adversity into prosperity.”
—A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
—Margaret Fuller
“That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true knowledge, all else is only a negation of knowledge.”
—Ramakrishna
“There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
—Buddha
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”.
—Plato
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
―Anais Nin
“We can have all the knowledge in the world, but it means nothing without the wisdom to know what to do with it.”
—Marie Osmond
“Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.”
—Proverb
“Knowledge has a beginning but no end.”
—Geeta Iyengar
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge”.
—Nicolaus Copernicus
“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”
—Charles Morgan
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
―Socrates
“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
―Hilary Mantel
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”
―Theodore Roosevelt
“I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates”.
—T. S. Eliot
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge”.
―John Naisbitt
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
―Maya Angelou
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
―G.I. Gurdjieff
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
―Voltaire
“Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge”.
—Alice Walker
“The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues”.
—Bruce Lee
“Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon the sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.”
―Vironika Tugaleva
“To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we’ve endured”.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams
“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion”.
—Aldous Huxley
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”
―Lao Tzu
“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”
―Alison Goodman
“Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always”.
—Ramana Maharshi
“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them”.
—Marilyn Ferguson
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”.
—Carl Jung
“The greatest talent you should have is learning how to be yourself.”
―Shiva Negi
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge”.
—Nate Silver
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein
“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement; you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river”.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day,” Raquel said firmly. “And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”
―Claudia Gray
“I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.”
―Charlotte Eriksson
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
―Malcolm Forbes Jr.
“Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself”.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I observe myself and thus understand the others.”
―Lao Tzu
“Without knowledge of self, there is no knowledge of God.”
―John Calvin
“Stop being your own critic. It’s high time to accept all the great things about you.”
―C. JoyBell C.
“I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
―Amy Sedaris
“If knowledge is power, then self-knowledge is empowerment.”
―Pedro Gaspar Fernandes
“We can only ever know ourselves, and by doing so honestly, we come to know the world.”
―Jen Knox
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
―C. JoyBell C.
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
―Albert Einstein
“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who
you are.”
―Lady Gaga
“Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.”
―Margaret Cho
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
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