Quotes about knowledge

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

Frederick Douglass

But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

Plato

Many things influence a person’s eating habits. Knowledge of what is considered healthy and what is not would be one, but I doubt it would make it to the top of the list.

Chuck Norris

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

Albert Einstein

I have never seen to my knowledge a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men.

Abraham Lincoln

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

Malcolm X

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Walt Whitman

Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream’s capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.

14th Dalai Lama

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

T. S. Eliot