Find the Perfect Quote | Explore Our Curated Categories for Every Occasion

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Those who have knowledge, do not predict. Those who predict, do not have knowledge.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it is more dangerous to lose than to win.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Knowledge is power.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.