Top 100 Little Knowledge Quotes
#1. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
Jack Kornfield
#2. If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
Khalil Gibran
#3. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
Swami Vivekananda
#4. What I would do with angel intel, I don't know. But it can't hurt to gain a little knowledge.
Tell that to Adam and Eve.
Susan Ee
#5. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening
I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#6. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...
Muse
#7. Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
James Truslow Adams
#8. I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.
Dara Torres
#9. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here.
The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.
Neal Stephenson
#10. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#11. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
Darren Shan
#12. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
#13. For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#14. A little hope and love now and then
Wise and beautiful, more than often.
Debasish Mridha
#15. It is much more challenging to accept those who know a lot than those who know little.
Eraldo Banovac
#16. I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#18. I'm among the first girls ever to play Little League baseball, and to my knowledge, the very first in western Illinois. It was 1976, and I was a nine-year-old tomboy whose older brothers had played.
Therese Fowler
#19. A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Robert Southey
#20. Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
#21. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
#22. If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Hannah More
#23. I asked, how is knowledge found?
'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.
David Mitchell
#24. In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.
Michel De Montaigne
#25. The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things
Sunday Adelaja
#26. I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?
Jonas Salk
#27. But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas A Kempis
#28. The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.
Baruch Spinoza
#29. With so many willing, complex women in the world, he had little respect for men who fixated on girlishness. Innocence was, by definition, an absence of experience - character - knowledge. To desire that absence seemed rather deviant.
Meredith Duran
#30. Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.
Christine De Pizan
#31. A little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.
Ruth Downie
#32. We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#33. A time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
Jennifer Stone
#34. Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.
Jesse Harris
#35. His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.
Terry Pratchett
#36. But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.
Peter F. Drucker
#37. My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
Thomas A Kempis
#39. A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure.
Richard G. Scott
#40. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
George Orwell
#41. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell
#42. I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of
a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of
the history of the world of the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
#43. A person with a big ego usually knows very little.
Eraldo Banovac
#44. Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
J. P. Vinluca
#45. It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their bosoms. This makes them ready to justify themselves, and to be impatient of reproof or admonition, not knowing that they are in any danger. 2 Chronicles 16:10
John Owen
#46. Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,
when I come back
we will go out together,
we will walk out together among,
the ten thousand things,
each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.
Galway Kinnell
#47. To be happy, think about happiness, and see happiness and beauty in every little thing.
Debasish Mridha
#48. I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.
Sherwood Anderson
#49. Knowledge is what shapes us, little brothers," he told them, for once his smile was absent, his tone entirely serious. "It makes us who we are. What we know informs everything we do and every decision we make.
Anthony Ryan
#50. Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
Euripides
#51. Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.
George Eliot
#52. Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served.
Jodi Taylor
#54. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.
Brent Jones
#55. Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
#56. Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.
Blaise Pascal
#57. A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
#58. To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
Lord Chesterfield
#59. Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.
Francois Fenelon
#60. While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Karl Popper
#61. A little or superficial knowledge may incline a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth him back to religion.
Anonymous
#62. Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.
Paul Brunton
#63. I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
Luc De Clapiers
#64. A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about him.
J.I. Packer
#65. Never rely on your little knowledge and understanding. There are always some things that you don't know.
Maliheh Sadat Razavi
#66. But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of their philosophy. I decided to remedy this.
Nelson Mandela
#67. I see ... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still ... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.
Claudia Gray
#68. A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase.
Anonymous
#69. Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little.
Leo Tolstoy
#70. We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.
Marilynne Robinson
#71. A little knowledge could be a large comfort.
Patrick Ness
#72. Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.
Evariste Galois
#73. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
#74. Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses - the whole world over his fence.
John Steinbeck
#75. I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.
William H. Macy
#76. ...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.
Socrates
#77. There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.
Nicolas Steno
#78. What has been done is little - scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.
Agnes Mary Clerke
#79. Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little. You are here to be my teacher. I have so much to learn. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others. I
Brian L. Weiss
#80. I might not be the most intelligent one amongst my peers but with the little knowledge I acquired over the years, I was able to give back to the society that has made me the man I have become today".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#81. A little caring, a little love, and a little kindness can give you joy and bring enduring happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#82. As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
#83. Harry," she said, her voice a little thick with the whisky. "You found the way, didn't you?" What's so wonderful about it? I thought. Dogs do.
Charles Williams
#84. Love every one as you love your little daughter and son, because everybody is somebody's daughter and son.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.
Shaun Hick
#86. We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety.
Floriano Martins
#88. When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing.
Debasish Mridha
#89. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
#90. In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#91. A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
#92. Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.
Hugh B. Brown
#93. It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
Graeme Base
#94. There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.
Mark Cuban
#95. For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
Rene Descartes
#96. Anyone who has experienced a strange episode in their life that defies all present scientific knowledge can appreciate the limits of human knowledge. There's nothing like such an event to make you keenly aware of how little we truly know and understand.
Steven Symes
#97. Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.
Don Hoesel
#98. It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.
G.H. Hardy
#99. To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#100. What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
Nafis Sadik
