Quotes About Knowledge

And lies, of course - It's like astronomy, I always say. Clever fellows, the astronomers, they can tell ever such a lot about something they can't see by the shadow it casts over something they can. Same with lies. The shape of a lie will often give you the truth.

Gignomai took a book off the top of the pile, glanced at the spine (Caecilius on Prosody) and opened it. It began with a beautiful illuminated letter B and went downhill from there.

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

It was good to know that memory could be melted down and recast if it came out flawed the first time around, just like a bell.

If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.

Kabîr says: "Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise, and the wise man becomes speechless and silent, The worshipper is utterly inebriated, His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect; He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings of love.

For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge: When that comes, then work is put away.  The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers. The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.

I have known in my body the sport of the universe: I have escaped from the error of this world. The inward and the outward are become as one sky, the Infinite and the finite are united: I am drunken with the sight of this All! This Light of Thine fulfils the universe: the lamp of love that burns on the salver of knowledge. Kabir says: "There error cannot enter, and the conflict of life and death is felt no more.

As spiritual seekers, we know that the objective knowledge we require cannot be constructed by human intellect alone. Intellect can perform many useful functions; it can divide, critique, and negate, but intellect is not the source of inspired knowledge about the purpose of life. Intellectual conjecture too often leads only to a labyrinth of opinion. Rather it is the heart that is the seat of true knowing. (p. 53)

There is a knowledge and a practice of connecting ourselves with cosmic Life. It has nothing to do with belief; it is learned. It is increased by our consciousness of it, by our increasing awareness of the abundance of cosmic energy. Life is infinite, and this infinity can be tapped. The only limitation is one of awareness. (p.13 Soul Work, Reflecting Spirit)

In our tradition, God says, "The heavens and the earth cannot contain Me." We know there are billions of stars and galaxies. Yet the Divine is saying, "No, all of that cannot contain Me. Only the heart of my faithful servant, the knower, is expansive enough to contain Me." It's a very high truth. (p. 80)

De geschiedenis staat beneden op je te wachten.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

People thought him complicated simply because he was interested in so many things, and knew so much. But on an emotional level, "he wanted to be a simple person, simple in the good sense of the word." Robert "wanted friends very much," Cherniss said. And yet, despite his tremendous personal charm, "he didn't quite know how to make friends.

Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports.

His physics was good, but his arithmetic awful.

decompression chamber for scholars.