Knowledge
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
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.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
If four things are followed — having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance — then anything can be achieved.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Give, give, give — what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge — which is mathematical, essentially — can have a playful visual element to it.