Quotes About Knowledge

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books.

This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.

Well look and see what this very same Job has to say, that book which everyone reads, but no one understands

Believe me, I know how to respect a man of learning, a man who sits and studies Torah, despite the fact that he doesn't so much as put his finger into cold water. You think he's lazy? He'd do anything, poor fellow—but there's nothing to do. So he sits and studies. Let him keep studying.

But it's as my mother says: "If you want to learn how to grow cabbages, ask the gardener, not the goat.

We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.

You can be taught knowledge, but only game wisdom when you are ready.

there is no absolute truth, there is only the interpretation of truth.

average Russian reads three times as many books a year as the average United States citizen.

I think so. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Secrets can be a burden. I mean, once you know something, that's it. You can never un-know it. You can never take that knowledge back. The innocence you had before, it's gone. You shouldn't inflict that on someone unless you really have to. Especially not someone you love.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.

Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

If children could, if adults knew.

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion.

The profound obscurity of the background of our ignorance is scarcely illuminated by a few glimmers of insight.

Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings. Therefore

Another friend of mine, whose insatiable scientific curiosity has impelled him to the most out-of-the-way researches and to the acquisition of encyclopaedic knowledge, has assured me that the Yogi by their practices of withdrawal from the world, concentrating attention on bodily functions, peculiar methods of breathing, actually are able to produce new sensations and diffused feelings in themselves which he regards as regressions to primordial, deeply buried mental states.

I]n scientific matters it is always experience, and never authority without experience, that gives the final verdict, whether in favour or against.

Nietzsche had more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live.

Marea majoritate a ocultistilor nu sunt manati de setea de cunoastere, de senzatia de rusine ca stiinta a omis atata timp sa ia cunostinta de problemele de netagaduit si nici de necesitatea sa-i cucereasca noi domenii fenomenale. Ei sunt mai degraba persoane convinse care cauta confirmari, care vor sa aiba o justificare, pentru a-si marturisi credinta.

Nor have I any reason for wishing to eliminate this evidence of my initial views. Even to-day I regard them not as errors but as valuable first approximations to knowledge which could only be fully acquired after long and continuous efforts.