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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu
Knowledge is not a thing to be monopolized; it is a sacred flame that should be kindled in every human heart.
Lucretia Mott
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
René Descartes
Existence is not a predicate.
Immanuel Kant
The world is everything that is the case.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
To be is to be perceived.
George Berkeley
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Skepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis Diderot
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The function of skepticism is to challenge, to question, to doubt, and to critically analyze.
Bryant H. McGill
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
Oscar Wilde
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The greater the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Certainty is the enemy of wonder.
Oscar Wilde
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds.
Marcel Proust
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
Buddha
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Yvonne Woon
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consciousness is the fundamental thing in existence. It is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and everything in it.
Deepak Chopra
Consciousness is not just the mere accumulation of information, but the ability to synthesize and make sense of it.
Erol Ozan
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Consciousness is the ground of all being, the ultimate reality, the foundation of the universe.
David Chalmers
Consciousness is the awareness of being aware.
Rupert Spira
Consciousness is the light that illuminates all experience.
Ken Wilber
Consciousness is the only reality, and everything else is an illusion.
Erwin Schrödinger
Consciousness is the key to understanding the universe and our place in it.
Roger Penrose
Consciousness is the ultimate mystery, the final frontier of science, and the gateway to understanding the nature of reality.
Stanislav Grof
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein
The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing for sure.
Plato
The world is not what it seems; it is infinitely more wonderful.
Richard Maurice Bucke
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.
Thomas Dreier
Existence is beyond the power of words to define.
Lao Tzu
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing at all.
Plato
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
The essence of knowledge is not simply having it, but having the humility to admit when we do not know something.
Unknown
The essence of knowledge is not in its possession, but in its use.
Unknown
The essence of knowledge is to know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The essence of knowledge is, having a thing to say, to say it; and having nothing to say, to say nothing.
Unknown
The essence of knowledge is not to be found in information, but in the transformation of the mind.
Unknown
The essence of knowledge is not to be found in the accumulation of facts, but in the understanding of their interrelationships.
Unknown
The essence of knowledge is not in the possession of truth, but in the pursuit of it.
Unknown
The essence of knowledge is not in the answers, but in the questions.
Unknown
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