“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”
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“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”
“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”
“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.”
“If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.”
“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”
“To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.”
“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.”
“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
“Knowledge is the life of the mind.”
“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”
“To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
“Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”
“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”
“I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.”
“Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.”
“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”