In a world where information flows at an unprecedented pace, knowledge remains one of our most powerful tools. It is the lens through which we perceive reality, the spark that ignites innovation, and the foundation upon which we build our futures. As we navigate the complexities of modern life, it's crucial to pause and reflect on the essence of learning and understanding. This collection of 39 insightful quotes is designed to inspire and challenge you to think more deeply about the role of knowledge in your life. From ancient philosophers to contemporary thought leaders, these voices offer timeless wisdom that encourages growth and invites exploration. Join us as we delve into these thought-provoking reflections and unlock the transformative power of knowing.
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. “To really know someone is to havelove and hated him in turn.” - Marcel Jouhandeau
5. “Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.” - Robin McKinley
6. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand” - Hayley Williams
7. “There's more to getting to where you're going then just knowing there's a road.” - Joan Lowery Nixon
8. “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
9. “The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of his car when driving, or else the picture of that stalwart body, now lying motionless. Knowing meant that: a living warmth, and a picture of death.” - Albert Camus
10. “His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.” - A.A. Milne
11. “Man can't say he knows nothing when saying it.” - Toba Beta
12. “We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.” - Cecelia Ahern
13. “We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.” - Jude Morgan
14. “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
15. “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
16. “Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.” - Francois Lelord
17. “... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.” - Nell Freudenberger
18. “If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.” - Junot Diaz
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. “It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know.” - W.G. Sebald
22. “Only ignorance excuses stupidity” - Nalini Singh
23. “Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.” - Suzanne Collins
24. “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
25. “If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.” - Jamie Leanne Gaines
26. “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
27. “When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what is, what isn't, and how little time there is to learn the difference.” - Dan Simmons
28. “The most incredible architectureIs the architecture of Self,which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breatheyou are adding to your lifeand every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life.Every breathe is a re-birth.” - Allan Rufus
29. “..Imam Ali [A]..'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord” - DR MUHAMMAD ALI SHOMALI
30. “Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org” - Allan Rufus
31. “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
32. “Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, knowing your weight right now, knowing your age, knowing what you do, knowing where you live, knowing what you ate for supper and what you will eat for breakfast, where you will sleep tonight, how much your clothing cost, who your parents were. He knows you individually as though there were not another person in the entire world. He died for you as certainly as if you had been the only lost one. He knows the worst about you and is the One who loves you the most. If you are out of the fold and away from God, put your name in the words of John 3:16 and say, “Lord, it is I. I’m the cause and reason why Thou didst on earth come to die.” That kind of positive, personal faith and a personal Redeemer is what saves you. If you will just rush in there, you do not have to know all the theology and all the right words. You can say, “I am the one He came to die for.” Write it down in your heart and say, “Jesus, this is me—Thee and me,” as though there were no others. Have that kind of personalized belief in a personal Lord and Savior.” - A.W. Tozer
33. “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
34. “But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.” - Lauren Oliver
35. “Knowledge without wisdom is like a plane without a pilot!” - Evinda Lepins
36. “Questioning ourselves and our country is healthy and essential.” - Bryant McGill
37. “I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.” - Suzanne Palmieri
38. “Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.” - Bryant McGill
39. “A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.” - Samantha Young
