Knowledge Quotes - Page 15

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.