- And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato
- “Curiosity did not kill the Cat, it transformed the Cat into a Lion.” ― Constance Friday
- “People can’t unshackle all of their true strength without taming their temper.” ― Picazo Basha, Shambala Sect
- “I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
- “If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.” ― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
- “Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.” ― Imam Al-Ghazali
- “Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless wholeLike some pocket history of the world, so generalAs to constitute a sob or wail” ― John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- “The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.”(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)” ― A.E. Housman, Selected Prose
- “And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.” ― T. A. Miles, Raventide
- “Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
- “The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and methods of attaining knowledge according to which degrees of both intellection and intuition become harmonized in an order encompassing all the means available to man to know, from sensual knowledge an reason to intellection and inner version or the “knowledge of the heart.” ― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy
- “The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge…. Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.” ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
- “The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.” ― Jordan B. Peterson
- “Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life’s morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life’s joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art’s nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship” ― Robert Green Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
- “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
- “The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius
- The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not informed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. Leo Tolstoy
- If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich. Warren Buffett
- “Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!” ― Monique Rockliffe
- “There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.” ― Debasish Mridha M.D.
- “Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.” ― Plato
- “Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.” ― James Joyce
- “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “The stubborn critic would say: ‘What is the benefit of these sciences?’ He does not know the virtue that distinguishes mankind from all the animals: it is knowledge, in general, which is pursued solely by man, and which is pursued for the sake of knowledge itself, because its acquisition is truly delightful, and is unlike the pleasures desirable from other pursuits. For the good cannot be brought forth, and evil cannot be avoided, except by knowledge. What benefit then is more vivid? What use is more abundant?” ― Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
- “Be the person you would do anything for. Be the person you will not let down. It’s time to respect yourself and your dream; both truly deserve that respect.” ― Loren Weisman
- “Be joyful, beautiful, tranquil like a tree.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Wisdom carries the burden within, knowledge is more procurable” ― Kumar Pranay
- “How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.” ― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!