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344 Knowledge Quotes

1. "Know that you don’t know. That is superior." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
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2. "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet

3. "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." (Frank Herbert) Click to tweet

4. "The dumbest people i know are those who know it all." (Malcolm Forbes) Click to tweet

5. "Real knowledge is intrinsic and it’s built from the ground up." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

6. "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

7. "The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." (Eden Phillpotts) Click to tweet

8. "Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring. Small words are chatter." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet

9. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

10. "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet

11. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

12. "Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

13. "The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

14. "The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself… the more you learn, the more you’ll earn." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet

15. "Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

16. "The ultimate test of knowledge is self-transformation. Knowledge is of use only if it brings a profound change in yourself. Make sure that your knowledge is qualitative, not just quantitative. The quality of understanding is important, not the quantity of information."Click to tweet

17. "Wise people say less than they know. Fools say everything they know and many things they don’t."Click to tweet

18. "When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man." (Zen Proverb) Click to tweet

19. "The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

20. "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel j." (Boorstin) Click to tweet

21. "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet

22. "The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it." (Laurence Sterne) Click to tweet

23. "Ignorance is the curse of god; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." (William Shakespeare) Click to tweet

24. "The learning and knowledge that we have is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant." (Plato) Click to tweet

25. "The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things." (Plato) Click to tweet

26. "If your goal is lasting insight, consuming news that will be irrelevant next week is a bad strategy." (Michael) Click to tweet

27. "In an age of information abundance, the only things that really need to be taught are those that are counterintuitive." (Michael) Click to tweet

28. "The construction timeline of knowledge is similar to a skyscraper, too. Takes forever for the hole to be dug and the foundation poured, then the facade appears quickly." (Michael) Click to tweet

29. "Almost all americans own a smartphone or a computer. Each device contains the library of alexandria. The sum total of all world knowledge. You can learn anything. Why don’t you? Too busy tracking social status. Too enthralled by imagery your evolution can’t resist."Click to tweet

30. "I know just enough to know how little we know." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

31. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

32. "If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow." (Rachel Carson) Click to tweet

33. "Real knowledge breeds “body feel” and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet

34. "Humility will teach you knowledge, arrogance will teach you ignorance. If you think you know it all, you have learned nothing." (Thibaut) Click to tweet

35. "Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty." (Will Durant) Click to tweet

36. "Knowledge is rooted in all things — the world is a library." (Lakota proverb) Click to tweet
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37. "Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." (Jacob Bronowski) Click to tweet

38. "Knowledge is useful when applied, but over-accumulated for its own sake is a burden." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

39. "Information is not knowledge." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

40. "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." (Anton Chekhov) Click to tweet

41. "Knowledge is power." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
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42. "The only thing that i know, is that i know nothing." (Rene Descartes) Click to tweet

43. "Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet

44. "I did then what i knew how to do. Now that i know better, i do better." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

45. "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance." (Confucius) Click to tweet

46. "I am a part of everything that i have read." (Theodore Roosevelt) Click to tweet

47. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." (Socrates) Click to tweet

48. "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." (Leonardo da Vinci) Click to tweet

49. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

50. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." (Benjamin Franklin) Click to tweet

51. "There is no knowledge that is not power." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet

52. "If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." (Henry Ford) Click to tweet

53. "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." (James Madison) Click to tweet

54. "Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet

55. "The more i read, the more i acquire, the more certain i am that i know nothing." (Voltaire) Click to tweet

56. "The more you know the less you understand." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet

57. "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) Click to tweet

58. "Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality." (Dalai Lama) Click to tweet

59. "And what, socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, i said, knowledge is the food of the soul." (Plato) Click to tweet

60. "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." (Plato) Click to tweet

61. "I am the wisest man alive, for i know one thing, and that is that i know nothing." (Plato) Click to tweet

62. "If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet

63. "Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
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64. "Wisdom is the daughter of experience." (Leonardo da Vinci) Click to tweet

65. "Diversification is a hedge against a lack of knowledge." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

66. "Wisdom > knowledge > information > data." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet

67. "Knowledge, like milk, has an expiry date." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet

68. "The more you know, the less you need to say." (Jim Rohn) Click to tweet

69. "Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly."Click to tweet

70. "Knowledge has a beginning but no end." (Geeta S. Iyengar) Click to tweet

71. "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." (Jimi Hendrix) Click to tweet

72. "Time, as it grows old, teaches all things." (Aeschylus) Click to tweet

73. "Take small bites. Before people realize it, you have accumulated an empire." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
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74. "Better to understand a little than do misunderstand a lot." (Lord Chesterfield) Click to tweet

75. "Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

76. "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." (James Madison) Click to tweet

77. "Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

78. "Now we have the internet, which is the greatest weapon of knowledge ever created, completely interconnected." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

79. "School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

80. "The fact that i can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." (Leo Buscaglia) Click to tweet

81. "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." (Anais Nin) Click to tweet

82. "Your problem is not a lack of knowledge; you already have more of it than 90% of people will ever have. The problem is a lack of implementation. Once you’ve acquired a certain amount of knowledge, adding more to it is less important than putting your current knowledge to work."Click to tweet

83. "The value of knowledge depends on what else you know." (David Perell) Click to tweet

84. "For me, i am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than i knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you." (Neil deGrasse Tyson) Click to tweet

85. "A great book can transmit years of wisdom in a few afternoons. Each sentence conveys meaning with precision and economy. A great book is a patient teacher and a deathless companion. A man with a good library has a thousand good mentors."Click to tweet

86. "No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire." (L. Frank Baum) Click to tweet

87. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

88. "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." (Ralph W. Sockman) Click to tweet

89. "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) Click to tweet

90. "The end of all knowledge should be service to others." (Cesar Chavez) Click to tweet

91. "I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith." (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet

92. "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." (Margaret Fuller) Click to tweet

93. "Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time." (Howard Nemerov) Click to tweet
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94. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Russell) Click to tweet

95. "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before." (Kurt Vonnegut) Click to tweet

96. "If you think that knowledge alone is power, remember: people still smoke and drink soda." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet

97. "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." (Miles Kington) Click to tweet

98. "If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet

99. "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and i did. I said i didn’t know." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet

100. "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." (George Bernard Shaw) Click to tweet
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101. "The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

102. "The more you possess the more you are possessed." (Thibaut) Click to tweet

103. "Better to know how to know than to be taught what to know." (Thibaut) Click to tweet

104. "Knowledge is cumulative when you focus on things that change slowly." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet

105. "Our tragedy is that we read too much and reflect too little. Anything worth reading is worth deep contemplation. Knowledge without absorption leaves no lasting mark on us and is little different from a passing amusement."Click to tweet

106. "Understanding is far more important than knowledge. Knowledge is quantitative. It is information. It remains peripheral. Understanding is qualitative. It penetrates your heart and permeates your being. Knowledge boosts the ego but only understanding brings transformation."Click to tweet

107. "It is important to read extensively and have a knowledge of a wide variety of perspectives. Reading or focusing only on one thinker can bias one’s thinking and distort one’s perception. That’s why it has been said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing."Click to tweet

108. "The education system works to load memory rather than increase understanding. Being able to reproduce information isn’t the same as understanding what it means. The system produces parrots who don’t know what they’re talking about with heads too stuffed to allow new perspectives."Click to tweet

109. "Knowledge is neutral; it is just information. It is the alchemical quality of mind – the receptacle in which the knowledge is put – that transforms it into something worthwhile. Knowledge without understanding is little more than a burden on the storage capacity of mind."Click to tweet

110. "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to and end." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

111. "You can only be afraid of what you think you know." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

112. "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." (Plato) Click to tweet

113. "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." (Isaac Asimov) Click to tweet

114. "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death." (Robert Fulghum) Click to tweet

115. "One of the most important skills in 2019 is being able to ignore noise. Too much information is just as bad as not enough information." (Life Math Money) Click to tweet

116. "Most college degrees are certificates of gullibility." (Life Math Money) Click to tweet

117. "I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

118. "A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again." (Alexander Pope) Click to tweet

119. "Learn to use the knowledge of the past and you will look like a genius, even when you are really just a clever borrower." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

120. "Do anything to break up your normal train of thinking and your sense that you already know the truth." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

121. "Knowledge has three degrees – opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition." (Plotinus) Click to tweet

122. "That which we desire lies across an ocean of hard won knowledge."Click to tweet

123. "They will call you lost for not following the same route as others. They will call you a geek for being a knowledge-seeker. They will call you ugly for not looking like celebrities. They will call you dumb for not being an academic." (Thibaut) Click to tweet

124. "The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science." (Carl Sagan) Click to tweet

125. "Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal." (Horace Mann) Click to tweet

126. "These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." (Vernon Cooper) Click to tweet

127. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." (William James) Click to tweet
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128. "Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

129. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." (Alfred Tennyson) Click to tweet

130. "Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge." (Leonardo da Vinci) Click to tweet

131. "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) Click to tweet

132. "We do not need more knowledge but more wisdom. Wisdom comes from our own attention." (Jack Kornfield) Click to tweet

133. "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." (Marilyn vos Savant) Click to tweet

134. "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." (Thomas Carlyle) Click to tweet

135. "Knowledge if not digested does not give nutrition, only adds weight." (Osho) Click to tweet

136. "As we move forward we must remember that despite our quest, the shores of our ignorance grow as the island of knowledge grows." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet

137. "Are you focused enough on the same thing to build cumulative knowledge or are you too spread out?" (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet

138. "Information – so abundant it’s worth practically nothing. Knowledge – scarce enough to be worth $, price determined by supply and demand, distribution follows a bell curve. Insight – so rare it could be worth a fortune, distribution is fat-tailed and the black swan rules." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet

139. "The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others." (John Locke) Click to tweet

140. "Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them." (Ram Dass) Click to tweet

141. "Doubt is wisdom. People are dangerous when they are certain that their cause is just and their facts are right." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet

142. "This presumption that you possess knowledge of any use has to be dropped before you approach philosophy – just as if we were enrolling in a school of music or mathematics." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

143. "Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

144. "Information, the knowledge of facts, though ever increasing, is by its very nature limited. Wisdom is infinite, it includes knowledge and the way of action; but we take hold of a branch and think it is the whole tree. Through the knowledge of the part, we can never realize the joy of the whole. Intellect can never lead to the whole, for it is only a segment, a part." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

145. "Constantly remind yourself of how little you truly know, and of how mysterious the world remains." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

146. "If you’re broke and tell people money is not important, they won’t listen to you. If you’re ignorant and say knowledge is vanity, no one believes you. If you preach stoicism but never faced any difficulties, your sermon is futile. Let your message grow out of your own experience."Click to tweet

147. "If you smirk at the past dogmas, just imagine how the future will laugh at your own certainties. You think current knowledge is indubitable, but so did all the past ages. Epistemic humility is the most repeated – and ignored – lesson of history."Click to tweet

148. "Everything we know has an expiration date." (Samuel Arbesman) Click to tweet

149. "Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more." (William Cowper) Click to tweet

150. "A society of narrowly developed specialists is a society expert in seeing trees but not forests."Click to tweet

151. "A miseducation is much more dangerous than no education. An uneducated person has common sense born of pattern recognition. A miseducated person has traded good sense for bad theories."Click to tweet

152. "Knowledge is discovered by all of us, each adding to the whole. Wisdom is rediscovered by each of us, one at a time." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

153. "Knowledge is either from direct experience or from verifiable, falsifiable science. There is knowledge that is transmitted but not verifiable / falsifiable, and this knowledge is indistinguishable from that which is false." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

154. "To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet

155. "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet

156. "We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom." (Michel de Montaigne) Click to tweet

157. "The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure." (Buddhist Proverb) Click to tweet

158. "Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand." (Guinean Proverb) Click to tweet

159. "It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it." (Persian proverb) Click to tweet

160. "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet
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161. "Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

162. "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." (Carl Jung) Click to tweet

163. "You have to know the past to understand the present." (Carl Sagan) Click to tweet

164. "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." (William Blake) Click to tweet

165. "The road to mastery is only traveled by those who can tolerate being a beginner. Knowledge begins with the acknowledgement of ignorance. Modern people may have to learn and discard many skills throughout their lives. Those who can embrace being a beginner will thrive."Click to tweet

166. "We needed all the information we could get. All gossip is relevant in a small tribe. We had to know where prey slept and where lions hunted. There was no such thing as “too much information”. Modern tech has changed the game. We are overwhelmed with irrelevant data."Click to tweet

167. "Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing." (Rick Riordan) Click to tweet

168. "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in." (Isaac Asimov) Click to tweet

169. "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." (Carl Sagan) Click to tweet

170. "It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything." (Alexander McCall Smith) Click to tweet

171. "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge." (John Naisbitt) Click to tweet

172. "Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not i, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season." (Heraclitus) Click to tweet

173. "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet

174. "The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." (Bertrand Russell) Click to tweet

175. "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off." (Thomas Aquinas) Click to tweet

176. "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
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177. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

178. "Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

179. "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." (Socrates) Click to tweet

180. "The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things." (Jean Piaget) Click to tweet

181. "I would live to study, not study to live." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet

182. "The greatest sin for the highly credentialed is thinking that’s enough to guarantee success. The greatest sin for the lowly credentialed is thinking that’s enough to guarantee failure." (Michael) Click to tweet

183. "The more primitive your building blocks, the more complex the structures are that you can build. Think from first principles." (Michael) Click to tweet

184. "The best mentors are often those who have wide knowledge and experiences." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

185. "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." (Margaret Fuller) Click to tweet

186. "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." (Carl Sagan) Click to tweet

187. "The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart." (Dalai Lama) Click to tweet

188. "Education system was designed to produce factory workers. Obsolete. Young people are entering an age of increasing complexity and rapid change. Capacity for continual self-directed learning is crucial. Those that struggle with abstract thinking and complex tasks will suffer."Click to tweet

189. "Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy."Click to tweet

190. "A generation of autodidacts, educated by the internet & leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

191. "What to study and how to study it are more important than where to study it and for how long." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

192. "True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment." (James Russell Lowell) Click to tweet

193. "A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it." (Parker J. Palmer) Click to tweet

194. "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world." (Margaret Mead) Click to tweet

195. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." (Kofi Annan) Click to tweet

196. "Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. Daniel j." (Boorstin) Click to tweet

197. "The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching." (Aristotle) Click to tweet

198. "The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values." (William Ralph Inge) Click to tweet

199. "Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
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200. "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge." (Audre Lorde) Click to tweet

201. "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." (Robertson Davies) Click to tweet

202. "In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information." (Anthony J. D’Angelo) Click to tweet

203. "A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge." (Grace Hopper) Click to tweet

204. "If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions." (Susanne K. Langer) Click to tweet

205. "Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." (Plato) Click to tweet

206. "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." (Leonardo da Vinci) Click to tweet

207. "If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

208. "Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

209. "What self development gurus fail to get: people don’t lack the knowledge of what to do. They lack the will to do it. You can give them all the knowledge but it will be useless unless they have the will to implement. The guru cannot transfer will, he can only transmit knowledge."Click to tweet

210. "Whatever scares or discomforts you is your teacher." (Dailyzen) Click to tweet

211. "The value of new knowledge is greater to the person who already knows a lot. The more effort you put in, the more you get back per unit of effort. Knowledge violates the law of diminishing returns." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet

212. "The internet is widening the gap between the curious and the non-curious. The former added hundreds of hours a year of podcasts, blogs and books. The latter mostly news and pictures of other people’s food." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet

213. "The rate of change is accelerating. Bad news for the nostalgic, the attached and the complacent. Great news for the visionaries, the adventurous and the perpetual learners." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet

214. "Tell a man a fact and he’ll forget it tomorrow. Spark a man’s curiosity and he’ll find the needed facts himself."Click to tweet

215. "You can’t teach a person who insists they know everything already. They have some painful unlearning to do before they’ll be able to learn anything."Click to tweet

216. "The ability to learn, the means of learning, the tools of learning, are abundant and infinite. It’s the desire that’s incredibly scarce." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

217. "Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge." (Rumi) Click to tweet

218. "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." (George Bernard Shaw) Click to tweet

219. "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." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet

220. "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." (Thomas H. Huxley) Click to tweet

221. "We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing." (Maria Mitchell) Click to tweet

222. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

223. "Knowledge is of the past; learning is in the present, a constant movement, in relationship with the outward things, without the past." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet

224. "I have always thirsted for knowledge, i have always been full of questions." (Hermann Hesse) Click to tweet

225. "The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge." (Thomas Berger) Click to tweet

226. "Intuition does not come to an unprepared mind." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
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227. "The only real valuable thing is intuition." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

228. "Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists." (Corliss Lamont) Click to tweet

229. "Faith requires following the power of a whisper." (Shannon L. Alder) Click to tweet

230. "Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." (Joyce Brothers) Click to tweet

231. "Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data." (John Naisbitt) Click to tweet

232. "Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." (Robert Graves) Click to tweet

233. "Intuition and concepts constitute the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge." (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet

234. "Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why." (Sylvia Clare) Click to tweet

235. "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

236. "I believe in intuitions and inspirations… i sometimes feel that i am right. I do not know that i am." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

237. "When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet

238. "All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." (Alexis Carrell) Click to tweet

239. "Don’t try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition." (Madeleine L’Engle) Click to tweet

240. "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." (Benjamin Spock) Click to tweet

241. "Reading maketh a full man." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
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242. "Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet

243. "In my whole life, i have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none, zero." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

244. "Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet

245. "I read all kinds of stuff that i disagree with because they’re mind bending." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

246. "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." (John Locke) Click to tweet

247. "Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

248. "For people who hoard knowledge, reading is like a drug. They need a constant supply of new books. One must ask oneself what is the end of knowledge. Aside from the pleasure of reading, the purpose of knowledge is to help us live and grow. It is not a substitute for life itself."Click to tweet

249. "If you don’t apply your knowledge and are addicted to reading just for the sake of pleasure, then your reading habit is little different from other forms of entertainment. Knowledge is never going to change you substantially unless you actively implement it in your daily life."Click to tweet

250. "Knowledge is like food. You can’t just consume it. You have to digest it. Instead of reading more books, get more from the books you’re already reading." (David Perell) Click to tweet

251. "People start tough books with high hopes. They get to the messy part, feel inadequate, and quit. Only the desperate for knowledge carry forward, destroying their insecurity by force of will." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet

252. "Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." (Edmund Burke) Click to tweet

253. "To train your body, lift increasingly heavier weights. To train your mind, read increasingly tougher books." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet

254. "Understanding 10% of a hard book isn’t bad. It may gave you the grounding to understand 20% of the next book you read in that area. Deep knowledge is a mosaic. It is put together piece by piece."Click to tweet

255. "Reading widely allows you to be in conversation with the great minds of history. What would cicero think? How would nietzsche respond to that? Where would wilde find a joke in this? The mind is peopled with those you welcome into it."Click to tweet

256. "Reading is not a chore. Reading is theft. It is a robbery. Someone smarter than you has spent 20 years beating their head against the wall trying to solve the problem you’re dealing with. You can steal that hard won knowledge and make it yours. That is power."Click to tweet

257. "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand." (Ezra Pound) Click to tweet

258. "The best advice i ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." (David Bailey) Click to tweet

259. "Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved." (Thucydides) Click to tweet
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260. "Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil." (Plato) Click to tweet

261. "Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance." (Will Durant) Click to tweet

262. "You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong." (Elon Musk) Click to tweet

263. "Those who lack intellectual curiosity, remain ignorant regardless of their education. In fact they remain ignorant partly because of their formal education: they think they’ve already obtained knowledge, as if it were purchasable from a university. Real knowledge is self acquired."Click to tweet

264. "The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. Daniel j." (Boorstin) Click to tweet

265. "Remember: we’ve only taken a bucket of knowledge from a sea of ignorance." (David Perell) Click to tweet

266. "Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem “in the know.” They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner."Click to tweet

267. "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." (James Madison) Click to tweet

268. "One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known." (Crates) Click to tweet

269. "There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance." (Hippocrates) Click to tweet

270. "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." (Thomas Sowell) Click to tweet

271. "God save me from him who studies but one book." (Italian Proverb) Click to tweet

272. "The three most underused words: “i don’t know”." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet

273. "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." (Thomas H. Huxley) Click to tweet
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274. "Real knowledge comes when people do the work." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet

275. "Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested." (Sathya Sai Baba) Click to tweet

276. "Knowledge without practice is useless, and practice without knowledge is dangerous." (Confucius) Click to tweet

277. "People think they need more knowledge when in reality they need to implement the knowledge they already possess. Because active implementation of knowledge requires real work, they procrastinate by reading more stuff while thinking that they are doing something productive."Click to tweet

278. "Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

279. "Time spent mastering the basics is time well spent."Click to tweet

280. "You can gain knowledge and fat quickly through consumption. Muscle and skill (wisdom) can only be gained through strenuous action." (Robert Kelley) Click to tweet

281. "Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action." (Jim Rohn) Click to tweet

282. "The only source of knowledge is experience." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

283. "No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience." (John Locke) Click to tweet

284. "The true method of knowledge is experiment." (William Blake) Click to tweet

285. "It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience." (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet

286. "Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work – on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself – it must be organized for constant change." (Peter F. Drucker) Click to tweet

287. "Any piece of knowledge i acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when i know more, i recall that piece of knowledge and use it better." (Mark Van Doren) Click to tweet

288. "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet

289. "Wisdom is cheaper than execution." (Michael) Click to tweet

290. "Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
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291. "Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

292. "Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

293. "Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

294. "Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

295. "Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

296. "Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

297. "The more you create, the less time you have to read and learn for “fun”. You start to acquire knowledge like a mercenary, picking only the most useful bits when you need them. If you’re the type who collects knowledge because it’s “cool”, this is why you’ll never make an impact." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet

298. "How can you thrive? Learn fast. Move quickly. Harness tech. Abandon sunk costs. Resist distraction. Understand crowd behavior. Rhetoric is rewarded in networked society. Global society concentrates rewards among a+ players and those in a few fields with talent shortages."Click to tweet

299. "Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious." (Austin Osman Spare) Click to tweet

300. "You must understand the following: in order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

301. "You are like a hunter: your knowledge of every detail of the forest and ecosystem as a whole will give you many more options for survival." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

302. "There is knowledge and then there is hidden knowledge. If you know what everyone knows, you are at no particular advantage. Seek special knowledge that makes all the difference. Knowledge is power. A single, little piece of secret knowledge can exponentially improve the outcome."Click to tweet

303. "Trying to remember everything weighs us down. It blocks creativity. Most people learn by consuming tons of information and trying to remember it all. The more we try to learn and remember everything, the less we take action." (David Perell) Click to tweet

304. "Become a network. Share your thinking, content, and research. You’ll supersize your mind. By getting feedback from every corner of the globe, you’ll accelerate your progress." (David Perell) Click to tweet

305. "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." (Pearl S. Buck) Click to tweet

306. "Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. Daniel j." (Boorstin) Click to tweet

307. "The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge." (Napoleon Hill) Click to tweet

308. "Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the industrial age. Knowledge workers function like athletes – train and sprint, then rest and reassess." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

309. "The skills you really want can’t be taught, but they can be learned." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

310. "Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed." (Terry Goodkind) Click to tweet

311. "Smart people aren’t exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet
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312. "Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet

313. "Slowly mold your mentor’s knowledge in your own shape." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

314. "Exhibit remarkable confidence and people will think your confidence comes from real knowledge." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

315. "It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet

316. "A true sign of greatness: you are not bothered by others’ brilliance, nor are you afraid to share your own with others. You are secure in the knowledge that no one can take away your unique gifts."Click to tweet

317. "Fear not the ignorant or the retarded, fear those with mediocre intelligence or understanding. The latter are more dangerous because their partial knowledge gives them unwarranted confidence, spurring them on to reckless action."Click to tweet

318. "Confidence comes from being vulnerable, not by shielding yourself. It is a function of exposure. The more you are exposed to challenges, the more you grow. To grow in confidence, you must first be open to embarrassment. Get your feet wet, there is no other way."Click to tweet

319. "Having a rational mind helps for having unpopular opinions. You can judge reality base on logic – and not what the crowd thinks. This will give you confidence. You know your opinions are being supported by strong concrete pillars, and not weak flimsy straws." (Chu) Click to tweet

320. "Knowledge is the greatest power and it is something no one can see. It cannot be stolen or broken, no one can take it from you." (John Carrick) Click to tweet

321. "If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue." (Dalai Lama) Click to tweet

322. "Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know." (Eoin Colfer) Click to tweet

323. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
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324. "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

325. "Freedom is knowing who you really are." (Bill Vaughn) Click to tweet

326. "Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

327. "You can judge at what stage of growth a person is by the questions they ask. The nature of a person’s questions faithfully reflects the current phase in their journey to truth. A sign that you are nearing the truth is that you start asking the right questions."Click to tweet

328. "Read books that challenge your beliefs and make you feel stupid. You don’t get better by protecting your ego. You get better by exposing it to truth and being vulnerable. This is how you remain fluid and grow."Click to tweet

329. "We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything." (Blaise Pascal) Click to tweet

330. "We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be." (Jane Austen) Click to tweet

331. "It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet

332. "You only grow when you are alone." (Paul Newman) Click to tweet

333. "The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

334. "Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

335. "In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

336. "Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge." (Nate Silver) Click to tweet

337. "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power." (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Click to tweet

338. "Self-knowledge is the foundation of real success." (Rachel Simmons) Click to tweet

339. "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." (Marcus Garvey) Click to tweet

340. "If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) Click to tweet

341. "All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self-knowledge." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet

342. "He who knows others is clever; he who knows himself has discernment." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet

343. "Those who realize their folly are not true fools." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet

344. "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." (Buddha) Click to tweet

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