A little knowledge is a dangerous thing but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Mistakes are after all the foundations of truth and if a man does not know what a thing is it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life with its dynamic currents passing through your being is another.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The knowledge of anything since all things have causes is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time and trying to be brighter.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

All our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

When you know a thing to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies but they never can be friends because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go there's a problem.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies but they never can be friends because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words it is war minus the shooting.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are inevitably ruined.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.