My favorite one EVER:
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them --- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly, only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward.
You can only connect them looking backwards,
so you have to trust that
the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something
--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--
because believing that
the dots will connect down the road will
give you the confidence to follow your heart,
even when it leads you off the well-worn path,
and that will make all the difference." - Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A. Edison
Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know
themselves, and where they dream
- Roger Rosenblatt
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having
it, to confess your ignorance.
- Confucius
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important
than the knowledge gained.
- David Bohm
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it
cannot be harvested.
- African Proverb
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding
is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
- Jane Rule
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all
around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire,
the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
- Maria Mitchell
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
- Sydney J. Harris
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
- Larry Leissner
True knowledge exists in
knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the
smartest of all.
- Socrates
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
- Nietzsche
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege
of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most,
but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
The seed of knowledge withers in the harsh wasteland of
ignorance, yet grows strong in the fertile fields of imagination.
- Nantala A. Lavarenlavadora
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge
is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge
of school children. The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you
must acquire it.
- Sudie Back
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge
of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and
there is no knowledge that is not power.
- Jeremy Taylor
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more
comprehensible, but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting
or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny
camouflaged as humility.
- Robin Morgan
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must
be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking
dog to be tethered on a 10-foot chain.
- Adlai Stevenson
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use - that is, the
more we teach the more we learn.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Knowledge comes through practice.
- Celtic proverb
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate,
of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most
radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason
in their most elementary forms it is this knowledge and this
emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this
sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come
to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more
to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept
for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
- Marion Zimmer
To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge.
- Chinese Proverb
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad
deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty
things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have
marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs
of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel
in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one just indeed
be deaf to the harmonies of life.
- Helen Keller
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge
among the people.
- John Adams
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he
knows nothing.
- Joseph Addison
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and
effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content
with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education,
and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov
Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles
of human liberty.
- Daniel Webster
After all manner of professors
have done their best for us,
the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true
university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware
of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.
To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience
of the soul.
- Arnold Bennett
Knowledge itself is power.
- Francis Bacon
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge
and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge
that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably
at least as important as learning.
- Gary Ryan Blair
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar:
that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we
need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge,
not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
- Harold Bloom
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something
we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from
ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not
skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace
decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the
stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary.
Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows
by dispersion.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Anton Chekhov
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology.
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed,
but to those who have differed.
- Charles Caleb Colton
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
- Isaac Singer
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is an infinite series of images in the memory.
Understanding, which penetrates into their significance,
is the power to perceive their essence and interrelationship.
- Kabbalah
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, wisdom is humble
that he knows no more.
- William Cooper
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who
feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more
knowledge.
- Sivananda (1887-1963) Indian physician, sage
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson (1707-1784)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge
is limited, imaginations encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all
knowledge.
- Dr. Adolf Berle
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind
advances, the more certain it seems to me that
the path to genuine religiosity does not lie
through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and
blind faith, but through striving after rational
knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder.
- Ralph W. Sockman
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing,
thinking -- can.
- Helen Gurley Brown (1922-) US editor, author
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat
and drink
- Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
- Steve Droke
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu (6th Century BC Chinese Poet)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling,
is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin
After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning – and company doesn’t always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead, with the grace of a woman and the grief of a child. You learn to build all your roads on today, because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while, you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much, so you
And you learn that you can really endure, that you really are strong, that you really do have worth, and you learn, and you learn. With every goodbye, you learn.
~ Veronica A. Shoffstall
