Quotes About Knowledge

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

Granger, Hermione

A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it did not turn out quite differently.

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did sly dog!

Ones ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

When he sees beings everywhere destroying each other; when he sees all youth fading, all strength failing, all genius dying, when he is face to face with the will which decreed these tragic laws, more than ever he rejoices in his knowledge, and, seized anew by the passion for truth, he is happy.

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to be happy.

Os jovens conhecem cada vez mais o mundo em que estão, mas quase nada sobre o mundo que são. No máximo conhecem a sala de visitas da sua própria personalidade. Quer pior solidão do que esta? O ser humano é um estranho para si mesmo!

Só se questiona quem procura por si mesmo, quem quer sair da superfície do planeta mente para entrar em suas camadas mais profundas. Quem não se questiona não duvida das próprias verdades, não vasculha os fundamentos das emoções e dos pensamentos que tem, vai sempre ser superficial, ainda que seja academicamente um intelectual. E quanto mais me questionava, mais anotava e mais desenvolvia novos conhecimentos.

Quien estimula la reflexión es un artesano de la sabiduría.

La vida es una gran escuela que eneseña poco a quienes no saben leerla.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.