Quotes About Knowledge

From listening comes knowledge; From knowledge comes understanding; From understanding comes wisdom; From wisdom comes well-being.

De ouvir vem o conhecimento; Do conhecimento vem o entendimento; Do entendimento vem a sabedoria; Da sabedoria vem o bem-estar.

It was his fifth son and namesake, Sam, thirteen at the time of his father's death, who could lose himself in the shelves of books even to the detriment of his formal education.

One may know your secret never a second. If three, a thousand will know.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

What did I know about Bertrand, apart from the fact that his ass fit my dick like a glove?

God bless the Reference Librarians

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science.

Contact means the exchange of specific knowledge, ideas, or at least of findings, definite facts. But what if no exchange is possible? If an elephant is not a giant microbe, the ocean is not a giant brain.

If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man.

Sometimes it's more painful to know the truth than not to know it." -Han Solo

To say that the Force works in mysterious ways is to admit one's ignorance, for any mystery can be solved through the application of knowledge and unrelenting effort.

Where the Jedi courted power, the Sith lusted after it; where the Jedi believed they knew the truth, the Sith possessed it. Owned by the dark side, they ultimately became their knowledge.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Though God is beyond our comprehension, we can know him and speak meaningfully about him because he has revealed himself to us in the written and living word.

There is a difference between seeking to know things for the sake of knowledge itself and being willing to undergo renunciation to be possessed by the truth.

There is certainly a place for the college and the clinic, but really, do we need a Ph.D. in motherhood or a master's degree in friendship?

It had always seemed to her that what people thought of as possible only revealed the borders of their own fragment of eternity. Two hundred years earlier, flight had been unimaginable, germs were undreamed of, and doctors treated the sick by bleeding them, sometimes to death. For Hallie, the only certainty was that the world and their knowledge of it would keep changing, which made the thing denoted by the word "impossible" itself an impossibility.

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.

You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man,