Knowledge Quotes

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

William S. Burroughs

[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.

Massimo Pigliucci

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power

Alston Chase

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

Toba Beta

I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

Umberto Eco

Die Leidenschaften lassen den Menschen leben, die Weisheit aber, lässt ihn überleben.

Veit Etzold

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

Janaki Sooriyarachchi

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Wil Zeus

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard P. Feynman

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

Romain Rolland

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

Robert McKee

The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.... My answer to him was

Isaac Asimov

Hell is truth known too late.

J.C. Ryle

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

Cybill Shepherd

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti