Knowledge Quotes - Page 79

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.

Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

You must become like yourself.