Quotes about Knowledge

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.