Quotes About Knowledge

Freedom can occur only through education.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more from it.

Qui augmente sa connaissance augmente son ignorance.

Je mehr man schon weiß, je mehr hat man noch zu lernen. Mit dem Wissen nimmt das Nichtwissen in gleichem Grade zu, oder vielmehr das Wissen des Nichtwissens.

In fact he claimed that he was removing an untenable knowledge of God in order to make room for faith.

Die größte öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erhält hier die fundamentalistische Reaktion, die eine Versöhnung zwischen Glaube und Wissen prinzipiell ausschließt und die auf dem Vorrang des Glaubens vor dem Wissen beharrt.

Vielmehr stellt er auch die Bildung vor die Frage, wie der Konflikt zwischen Glaube und Wissen etwa durch gebildete Reflexion zumindest abgemildert werden kann.

Geometrically speaking, the Intellect is a ray rather than a circle, it emanates from God rather than reflecting Him. "Allah is known to Himself alone" say the Sufis; this saying, while it apparently excludes man from a direct and total knowledge, in reality enunciates the essential and mysterious divinity of pure Intellect; formulae of this kind are only fully understandable in the light of the often quoted hadith: "He who knows his soul knows his Lord.

We just need to feel we know, or we can't rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots

Dumb-bunnies think that if they don't understand the dharma or memorize it, then there's no benefit to even hearing it. They think that the best thing is to pursue knowledge and that if they forget what they've learned they might as well not have learned it at all.

Our knowledge is always incomplete, and our brains always misinterpret so much, that the only thing we can truly trust is intuition.

There's no comparison between someone who has their own real experience and someone who just reads about the experiences of others.

People who love books never have spare time!

Joseph Smith taught that true faith is more than knowing there is a God. It is knowing God—knowing His attributes and His relationship to us. It is knowing that He has a plan for us and that we are living in accordance with that plan (see Lectures on Faith, 3: 2–5).

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won't live forever, they make us feel as if we might.

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Buying a lambo is stupid if you don't know how to use to make you money.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.