Quotes About Knowledge

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

The study of Marxism outside of revolutionary struggle can form library rats, but not revolutionaries. Participation in the revolutionary struggle without the study of Marxism will inevitably be filled with hazards, be less confident, and turn out to be half-blind.

You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.

The officers who are over-sure, and "know it all like a book," are the ones, I have observed, who wreck the most ships and lose the most lives.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Reading Is To The Mind What Exercis Is To The Body .

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

A gente precisa estar informada sobre tudo, papai. Para isso é que existem os livros. Sem esses rebeldes, o mundo não progredia. Eles vão na frente, abrindo o caminho.

We are all here to serve each other. At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build a house of knowledge.

Speak less than thou knowest.

Funny how much I've read about this place for months—pages and pages of history. And no idea how little I knew until I came for myself.

Buddha is someone with a very advanced self-concept. His self-esteem is perfect; he has gone beyond doubt; he knows, and he is confident of his knowledge; he expresses himself with conviction. When the Buddha talks of himself in the first person he does so with clarity. He has a strong sense of identity and knows very well who he is. He gives accounts of his life experiences in the first person.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for one to appreciate a work of art one must bring to it nothing from life, no knowledge of life's affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions and desires, he was seized by the most stupefying boredom and he had to leave the stage.

Your silence is a little black garden. You know everything there by heart.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I dont give advice. I cant tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

now. We should know something

Experience, as we know, is deceptive: one judges the world through the prism of what has happened to oneself and considers this a just and reasonable approach, when in fact it is quite obviously the perfect tactic for never learning anything about anything.

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.