Quotes About Knowledge

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their memory never fails

You've just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don't you think? And don't you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?

Desconfíen siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.

Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books…

You do not die to know about death

Experience brings best

The veil of the hindrances to knowledge has three aspects in terms of progressively subtler concepts. The first is holding on to true existence (Tib. bden par 'dzin pa), the second is holding on to characteristics (Tib. mtshan mar 'dzin pa), and the third is the appearance of duality (Tib. gnyis snang).

The Omniscient One who Directly Sees Thatness" is an epithet of the Buddha. A buddha is called "omniscient" since he possesses the unhindered knowledge of all aspects of the knowable. The direct vision of thatness (Tib. de kho na nyid) is synonymous with the vision of reality as it is, with the direct realization of emptiness, of the absolute truth, of the dharmadhatu or the sugatagarbha.

Relative and ultimate, These the two truths are declared to be. The ultimate is not within the reach of intellect, For intellect is said to be the relative.

A silliest person is one who do not learn from his previous experiences.

You are playing with fire. You just don't know that yet. You might burn and there will be no smoke. At all!

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

Fletcher shrugged. "Science and mathematics are all the rage, you know. But who has time for good old Horace?

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Producing is just a big learning experience.

I knew I didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell was going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

Many students fail examinations not because they don't know anything but because they lack confidence to prove that they know anything or everything." ? Asuni LadyZeal

Success in investing comes not from being right but from being wrong less often than everyone else.

Let wisdom be your weapon

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.