Quotes About Knowledge

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

That's what's good about life - that you always learn.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the lives of those who have gone before, I have created life.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.

It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.