Best Knowledge Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”

“What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.”

“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets.”

“For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.”

“The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive”

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”

“A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.”

“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care.”

“Nobody wins at war and fight is the desolation of the oppressor.”

“The book of truth is not a book of answers, the book of truth is a book of questions.”

“Stay within your limits, you can do great things in life.”

“When you face a closed door, look for where you could have made a mistake and correct it in the next phase. Continue moving forward with newfound knowledge.”

“Knowledge makes you bend but prevents you from breaking!”

“Some knowledge comes not from curiosity, but from fear.”

“Truth is relevant only in its subservience to life.”

“Pain is the only teacher that demands the attention of every students and suffering only response when fools refuses to pay attention.”

“It’s all about the company you keep, isn’t it, Chief Inspector? Now Mr Trenton, who I know wouldn’t hurt a fly, has certain…preferences, if you know what I mean.’ He gave Merlin a meaningful look. ‘I don’t want to get anyone into trouble, of course.”

“How to win in life:”

“Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976, the first boat carrying Vietnamese refugees arrived in Darwin. (Uc da Loi means Big Red Rat. The Vietnamese People named Australians as such because of the red kangaroo painted on the sides of Australian military vehicles. They did not know what a kangaroo was and so, they thought it was a rat. Hence the name of Uc da Loi.)”

“I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”

“Show me slowly what I only”

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

“So runs my dream, but what am I?”

“Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say "I know", I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.”

“All we know is what we're told.”

“Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.”

“In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,”

“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know, and can thus save them from the trouble of thinking for themselves, that in a short time would-be philosophers and faddists became more powerful than ever, and gradually led their countrymen to accept all those absurd views of life, some account of which I have given in my earlier chapters. Indeed I can see no hope for the Erewhonians till they have got to understand that reason uncorrected by instinct is as bad as instinct uncorrected by reason.”

“Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.”