Knowledge Quotes

The greatest undeveloped space in the world is the 3 inch between your ears.

 Author Unknown

Everything you can imagine is real. 

Pablo Picasso

Albert Einstein: Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein: It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Alexander Pope: A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. probably the source of the saying, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

Anais Nin: The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Benjamin Jowett: We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Spock: Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Bertrand Russell: The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Blaise Pascal: We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Buckminster Fuller: Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Carl Jung: Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Rogers: If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

Christopher Morley: There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down.

Christopher Morley: There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Corliss Lamont: Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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: Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Dean William R. Inge: The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Eden Phillpotts: The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Epictetus: It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Frank Herbert: The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Henri Bergson: The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henry David Thoreau: True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau: It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau: I was determined to know beans. Walden.