Quotes About Knowledge

And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started.

Why do men want unmarried women to be so ignorant?

The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

An ignorant man is easily pleased, learned man even easier, but a man distorted by little knowledge, even Brahma can not please.

Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am.

So this holy life, bhikkhus, does not have gain, honour, and renown for its benefit, or the attainment of virtue for its benefit, or the attainment of concentration for its benefit, or knowledge and vision for its benefit. But it is this unshakeable deliverance of mind that is the goal of this holy life, its heartwood, and its end.

something may be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken.

Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.

Bhishma, has borne the great burden of the Kouravas, and with him, all that knowledge is about to set. That is the reason I am asking you to approach him.

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance

There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance. Love will never come to an end. Prophecies will cease; tongues of ecstasy will fall silent; knowledge will vanish...there are three things that last forever.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

Cry out for insight and understanding. Search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure.

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

In much wisdom is much grief.