Knowledge Quotes

"The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness." Wasif Ali Wasif

"Teach others your knowledge & learn the knowledge of others so you will bring your knowledge to perfection & learn something which you do not know." Hazrat Hasan ibne Ali A.S

" One of the signs of the scholar is his criticism upon his (own) speech & his awareness & knowledge pertaining to the facts about the forms & views. " Hazrat Hussein ibn Ali A.S

"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything." Bede Griffiths

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." Samuel Johnson

"Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself." Andy Grammer

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." Carl Jung

"The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness." Martin Seligman

"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness." Tom Waits

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." Immanuel Kant

"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age." Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men." Magnus Scheving

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge." Rene Descartes

"We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete." Thich Nhat Hanh

"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized." Muhammad Iqbal

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth." Malcolm X

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

"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well." P. G. Wodehouse

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power." Alfred Lord Tennyson

" I am the city of knowledge & Ali is it's gate so whoso ever intends to acquire knowledge must come through the gate." Hazrat Mohammad Mustafa (PBUH)

"When the innovations & heretical practices becomes evident in my Ummah it is necessary for the scholar to make his knowledge manifested & open (with regards to making the innovations public) so, curse of Allah be upon the scholar who does not do it. " Hazrat Mohammad Mustafa (PBUH)

" If people knew what (brilliant result) lies in seeking knowledge they would have definitely sought it even by shedding the blood of their hearts & plunging into the depth of oceans." Hazrat Zain-ul-Abideen A.S

"I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life." Tobey Maguire

"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." Charles Lindbergh

"There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness." George Washington

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity." Jose Marti

"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body." Marcel Proust

"We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress." Li Ka-shing

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost." Michel Foucault