“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”
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“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.”
“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”
“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”
“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”