Quotes About Knowledge

L'homme à qui Dieu n'a pas révélé la vie directement, ce n'est pas un livre qui la lui révélera.

Er sagt "Ich kann dich lesen wie ein offenes Buch" und er glaubt, dass er jedes Buch, das er liest, auch verstehen kann.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The tests of masculinity and the proofs of ego stability, will power, bravery, knowledge of "heaven," and so forth, which are demanded of the hero, have their historical equivalent in the rites of puberty.

If the emergence of an archetype is not immediately followed by an instinctive reflex action, so much the better for conscious development, because the effect of the emotional-dynamic components is to disturb, or even prevent, objective knowledge, whether this be of the external world or of the psychic world of the collective unconscious.

the initiate becomes an "ennoos," one who possesses nous, or whom the nous possesses, a "pneumaHkos." 71

some ceremony or course of action, always precedes the formulation of the myth, and it is obvious that action must come before knowledge, the unconscious deed before the spoken content.

THE AIM of the extraverted type of hero is action: he is the founder, leader, and liberator whose deeds change the face of the world. The introverted type is the culture-bringer, the redeemer and savior who discovers the inner values, exalting them as knowledge and wisdom, as a law and a faith, a work to be accomplished and an example to be followed.

The center common to conscious action through the will and to conscious knowledge through cognition is, however, the ego.

How often the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into dust!

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

Hemos perdido la oportunidad de saber, y durante demasiado tiempo nos han obligado a creer.

It's hardly worth mentioning all of the hundreds of thousands of writings that have fallen victim to fire or intentional destruction over the centuries.

Wichtigtuer sind zwar zu gut erzogen, um mit vollem Mund zu sprechen. Aber sie haben keine Bedenken, es mit leerem Kopf zu tun.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and 1920 Jews were slaughtered for a variety of contradictory reasons, as capitalists and as communists, as friends of the Ukrainians, as Polonophiles, as pro-German-just as it suited the circumstances.

The only real measure of the effectiveness of my teaching is what happens in the mind of the person learning.

The ability to learn quickly is the most important skill to have.

firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any

Firestar: Okay, Jayfeather, what does mallow look like? Jayfeather: I don't know, do I? I've never seen it.

My curse is to live forever, knowing what has been and what has yet to be, powerless to change anything.

Great knowledge can be lonely.

We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth!