Quotes About Knowledge

Each day he grew older and learned something new." Strong

the two lights of the world.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Suddenly, Walter was aware of all the things he did not know. There were hundreds--thousands--of books in the world, and he had read only a handful of them. One day he would die, a myriad of books unread, his knowledge of the world incomplete.

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them. I am old. Walter

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

We can only love what we know.

Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise?

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

My dear sir, if we only talked about what we understood, our conversation would be extremely limited.

Every logical act of the intellect is an assertion that something is.

Thus man believes in truths of two kinds, in those of absolute certainty through direct conviction, and in those of comparative certainty through conviction of the trustworthiness of the authority which propounds them.

Man has no knowledge of things except by the thoughts present to his mind; that is, he can only know what is thinkable.

Supreme happiness to reason, that is the Ideal of the intellect, is the attainment of certainty upon every subject and about all things.

The only knowledge man has of his thoughts is by their expression, consequently, every material being that can be conceived by the mind exists or can exist . He may imagine what is incongruous, as the sphinx. But his imagination is a piecing together of realities, not a creation out of nothing.

Curiosity, is a movement of the soul towards Truth, which it seeks to assimilate by Knowledge. It is the first step in the direction of Certainty.

Wisdom is inconceivable apart from something about which it can be called into operation.

The faculty of teaching freely is a right, for instruction is a duty.

That which mankind wanted, and wants still, is not new truths, but the co-ordination of all aspects of the truth.

We say that science is in its infancy; it will never become decrepit, for if truth be infinite, there will always be new aspects of it to be discovered.

Philosophy will go on being taught in the world and all over the world. Only a few, perhaps, will reach the deeps of it in this life; but a seed sown to-day may bear fruit long hence.

I'm not teaching you anything you don't already know somewhere deep within your being. Your genetic systems are encoded with this knowledge. My role is to awaken you to what you have simply forgotten along the way.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. KRISHNAMURTI I

As Socrates said, "True learning is remembering.