Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. 657
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. 761
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. 988
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. 714
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. 702
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. 719
There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. 1.92K
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. 655
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. 719
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. 622
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year. 2.3K
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. 705
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. 732
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. 2.48K
