Quotes About Knowledge

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Our true nature expresses itself as intelligence, clean energy, mindfulness, presence, and intuition. It also has an element of knowledge.

One of my favorite Tibetan sayings is "Even if you're going to die tomorrow, you can learn something tonight.

in Afghanistan, the women refer to their illiteracy as blindness. When I asked them what they meant by that, one woman explained: 'I couldn't read, so I couldn't see what was going on.' In fewer than a dozen words, she described a system that men in power have relied on for centuries-keep women uneducated so they won't know what's going on.

It's all very well learning why I behave in the way that I do. That doesn't stop me behaving in those ways. I am just more conscious of them.' Consciousness is where therapy stops and we begin. Therapy can only give us knowledge. It is up to us to use it.

There is nothing so attractive in a woman as a mind thirsty after knowledge and capable of receiving it.

Our student collects ideas, philosophy, facts, and stories. These synthesize and become foundations of their own mental library of the world.

I got through so much ink in the learning that the inkseller took to knocking at least once a week on the garden door. He had a gray solemn face that looked as if it was chiseled out of stone; he was stooped down like the letter C, as if he were Atlas carrying the weight of the world in his wooden barrel of ink. Maybe he did. I have learned that there is great power in words, no matter how long or short they be.

It is enough to know... Too much to see...

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by them. I know more about Raphael than all of you altogether.

The madman and the wise man are very similar, the only difference is that the wise man knows that he is crazy.

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

EUMOLP: Sé tots els mots que amaguen la solitud de l'home, no he d'aprendre res més.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.