I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan