Quotes About Knowledge

Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing we have begun, at last, to understand.

This was where his happiness lay, to sit in the great library and to read all things.

Who does not know?

The wealth of sorcerous knowledge I can import to the world, compared to your own transient beauty and skill, should recompense.

I see you are beginning to read me like a scroll.

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.

Sometimes we win with greater firepower, through sheer numbers or more powerful weapons, but for the most part it's knowledge that defines our victories.

Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

and even if someone told us we'd forget

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors. It allows you to spend your time working, playing, or doing anything else while your nest egg compounds on autopilot. It's about as difficult as breathing and about as time consuming as going to a fast-food restaurant once a year.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

There is no better outcome of one's education, which the American philosopher William Durant called "a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover.

We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the Great Romance we once had. But now I think the knowledge of Elyon is starting to work its way into me again--in both realities...If Elyon's real there, surely God must be real here.

There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.

It is surrendering what we think we know about the Father so we can truly know him.

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much.

To know. Not to know about.

Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher

I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come—a tremendously liberating knowledge.

You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free, for in that Truth you are free already.

For the sake of the world, they had to cling to what they knew, not what their emotions demanded from them.