35 Insightful Quotes On Knowledge

In a world where information is at our fingertips, the pursuit of knowledge remains an enduring journey for many. Whether it's the wisdom of ancient philosophers or contemporary thinkers, insightful quotes have the power to inspire us to think more deeply and broaden our perspectives. As we navigate the complexities of modern life, these nuggets of wisdom can serve as guiding lights, reminding us of the importance of learning, understanding, and expanding our mental horizons. In this collection, we've gathered the top 35 insightful quotes on knowledge that not only celebrate the quest for understanding but also inspire us to continue seeking the truths that shape our lives and the world around us.

1. “Be not another, if you can be yourself. ” - Paracelsus

2. “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” - Neil Gaiman

3. “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.” - Yevgeny Zamyatin

4. “Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.” - Lemony Snicket

5. “Suspecting and knowing are not the same.” - Rick Riordan

6. “Sometimes..I didn't know what I sought until I've found it.” - Toba Beta

7. “To really know someone is to havelove and hated him in turn.” - Marcel Jouhandeau

8. “A sense of mission lostin ink'sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn't recognize at first.” - Rae Armantrout

9. “So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.” - Wm. Paul Young

10. “The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.” - Erich Segal

11. “You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.” - Stephen King

12. “There’s always someone who knows something.” - Stephen King

13. “His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.” - A.A. Milne

14. “Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.” - Raven Symone

15. “We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.” - Jude Morgan

16. “The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.” - Henry Hazlitt

17. “I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.” - Kurt Vonnegut

18. “Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.” - Francois Lelord

19. “There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.” - Carson McCullers

20. “For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.” - Carson McCullers

21. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” - Plato

22. “You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.” - Libba Bray

23. “Awkward.That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of her, looking at her and feeling things and not knowing what to do.” - Markus Zusak

24. “Cunoștințele sunt cele care se adună în capul nostru fără să ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. Cunoașterea e transformarea unor cunoștințe într-o experiență de viață.” - Jean-Claude Carrière

25. “The Resurrected/Glorified, God-man Jesus and the angelic beings obviously have knowledge with which to think/reason/articulate/communicate. In my opinion, it seems to me there is 'another way' of knowing something. Yet, they have no physical/organic brain?"~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

26. “..Imam Ali [A]..'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord” - DR MUHAMMAD ALI SHOMALI

27. “Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!” - Allan Rufus

28. “She watches Simon's profile as he drives, concentrating, but he keeps turning to her, and every time he does so, he is smiling. He doesn't seem to care, and she wonders if, actually, he wants to be caught. In some ways she does, because she knows, already, albeit crazily swiftly, that she wants more of this man, that once was never, ever going to be enough.” - Sarah Rayner

29. “He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.” - Dejan Stojanovic

30. “But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.” - John Lanchester

31. “Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.” - Richard Rohr

32. “Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.” - David Almond

33. “Questioning ourselves and our country is healthy and essential.” - Bryant McGill

34. “I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.” - Suzanne Palmieri

35. “There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resistance started. That seems to be the key—knowing what’s going to happen.” - Stephenie Meyer