Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited. — Nicolas Chamfort
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. — Abu Bakr
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. — Zhuangzi
Few know how much we must know in order to know how little we know. — Arabic Proverbs
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. — John Locke
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. — Confucius
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. — Bertrand Russell
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. — Socrates
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. — Thomas Sowell
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed! — Zhuangzi
Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more. — R.K. Narayan
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot. — Albert Einstein
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. — Louis de Broglie
What Is Knowledge Quotes
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it. — Seymour Papert
Knowledge is not what is memorised.
Knowledge is what benefits. — Al-Shafi‘i
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. — George Muller
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. — Lord Kelvin
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. — Emilie du Chatelet
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane
Unlimited Knowledge Quotes
I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way. — Walter Russell
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge. — Bill Joy
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads. — Ayn Rand
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life. — Wilferd Peterson
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence. — L. Tom Perry
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. — De Witt Clinton
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. — Frederick Soddy
Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good. — Winston Churchill
Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence. — L. Tom Perry
Life And Knowledge Quotes
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on. — Virginia Henderson
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. — Leo Tolstoy
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. . . seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me. — Duane Allman
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world. — Muhammad Iqbal
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. — Bob Proctor
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. — Ariana Grande
Lack Of Knowledge Quotes
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. — Avicenna
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. — Vince Lombardi
The only limits you have are the limits you believe.
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind. — Karl Popper
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. — Solomon
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . . — Flannery O'Connor
Here we take the stance that all evils are due to lack of knowledge. — Naval Ravikant
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared. — Sonia Sotomayor
Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge. — Krister Stendahl
Incomplete Knowledge Quotes
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint. — Alfred Wegener
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described. — Douglas Hofstadter
For beautiful eye look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular. — Richard Shweder
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. — Lafcadio Hearn
There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both. — Russell M. Nelson
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit. — Arthur David Ritchie
One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation. — W. Edwards Deming
Poems come from incomplete knowledge. — Diane Wakoski
It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal. — Ralph W. Moss
Little Knowledge Quotes
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so. — Mark Twain
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous. — Kathryn Kuhlman
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. — Kahlil Gibran
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it. — Christine de Pizan
Our reliance upon knowledge and scientific thinking to achieve total development is the only way to bring our nation ahead to the stage of non-oil production, a lesson learnt from nations with little or no natural resources. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? — Thomas Henry Huxley
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life. — Mechthild of Magdeburg
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. — Camille Anna Paglia
Half Knowledge Quotes
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... — Beatrix Potter
Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics. — Frederick Lenz
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.' — Ned Block
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. — J. R. R. Tolkien
To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
To ask the proper question is half of knowing. — Roger Bacon
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. — Terry Pratchett
A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership — Aron Nimzowitsch
Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. — Richard E. Byrd
Sweep up the debris of decaying faith;
Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs,
And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge.
Be not afraid
To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient. — Adi Shankara
There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. — Bruce H. Lipton
Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors. — Guglielmo Marconi
Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits. — Namkhai Norbu
Even so-called empty space has a lot of matter and a lot of things that could be converted into energy. There is no limit to the number of resources out there. There’s purely a limit to knowledge. — Naval Ravikant
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. — Thomas Jefferson
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. — Zhuangzi
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity. — Bruce Lee
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. — Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. — Albert Einstein
Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become. — Matthew Barnett
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man. — George Leigh Mallory
Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it. — David D. Burns
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. — Nick Bostrom
Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents. — Heinrich Zimmer
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender. — Dan Barker
I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is. — Leo Buscaglia
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. — Bruce Lee
The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending. — Jim Rohn
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. — Bertrand Russell
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison. — Maria Edgeworth
My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived. — John Le Carre
If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life. — E. F. Schumacher
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. — Montesquieu
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. — Baron de Montesquieu
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others. — Rudolf Virchow
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. — Robert Frost
When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking. — Edward Snowden
The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing. — Edward Snowden
He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger. — Chanakya
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew. — Tucker Max
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. — Joseph Campbell
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