Knowledge.
Knowledge is often hailed as one of the most powerful assets a person can possess. It is the foundation upon which innovation is built, the catalyst for transformation, and the key that unlocks potential.
Throughout history, thinkers, leaders, and visionaries have sought to articulate the profound impact of knowledge on individual lives and society as a whole.
In this collection of quotes, we explore the multifaceted nature of knowledge—its acquisition, its dissemination, and its intrinsic value. Each quote serves as a testament to the belief that knowledge, when shared and embraced, can drive progress, inspire creativity, and foster understanding across cultures. Dive into these insights and reflect on how knowledge shapes our world.
Editors Pick
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Zhuangzi
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Zhuangzi
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Zhuangzi
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
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Augustine of Hippo
Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.
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Ali ibn Abi Talib
there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
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Miyamoto Musashi
You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain
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Miyamoto Musashi
All Quotes on Knowledge
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.
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Sun Tzu
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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Xunzi
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Xunzi
You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: why not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
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Xunzi
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
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Xunzi
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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Xunzi
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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Xunzi
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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Xunzi
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Xunzi
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Zhuangzi
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Zhuangzi
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Zhuangzi
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Zhuangzi
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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Zhuangzi
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Zhuangzi
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Zhuangzi
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.
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Wang wei
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
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Wang wei
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one’s brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
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Wang wei
I wish we could be trees deep in the mountains,
touching, twining limb around limb
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Bai Juyi
It's human nature to dote on young ones,
and people when they grow old get soft-hearted.
But the sweetest wine in the end turns sour,
the moon, however full, eventually must wane.
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Bai Juyi
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
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Augustine of Hippo
Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
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Ibn Khaldun