Quotes About Knowledge

On ne sait jamais rien. Sauf ce qui est sans importance.

Vous et moi, nous voulons savoir. Nous voulons connaître l'Univers dans tout ses secrets, les plus grands et les plus petits. Et nous savons déjà au moins une chose, c'est que l'homme est merveilleux, et que les hommes sont pitoyables, et que chacun de notre côté, dans notre morceau de connaissance et dans notre nationalisme misérable, c'est pour les hommes que nous travaillons.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn't matter. It's that he found another world in it.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books.

It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth. The itinerant preacher wandering from village to village clamoring about the end of the world, a band of ragged followers trailing behind, was a common sight in Jesus's time—so common, in fact, that it had become a kind of caricature among the Roman elite.

It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth.

of observable and verifiable events in the past is a product of the modern

Like a Jewish rabbi, a Sunni cleric is a scholar, not a priest. His judgment is followed not because it carries the authority of God (it does not), but because the cleric's scholarship, his intimate knowledge of tradition, and his unbreakable bond with the past grant him special insight into God's will.

As the ninth-century legal scholar Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki school of law, once quipped, "This religion is a science, so pay close attention to those from whom you learn it.

The Wheel of Fear is as smart, knowledgeable, educated and spiritual as you are

Cómo podía ser que nadie comprendiera? se había preguntado Tardewski. ¿O sólo leemos lo que ya hemos leído, una y otra vez, para buscar en las palabras lo que sabemos que está en ellas, sin que sorpresa alguna pueda variar el sentido?

The best tycoons are like magicians: they know when to share information and when to withhold. - p141

Nl homin certum est. (Ovid

Richard A. LaFleur

Richard A. LaFleur

Vvere est cgitre. (Cicero Tusc. 5.111.)

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

There are lessons in life that we all have to experience for ourselves. There are other lessons that we can learn from others, lessons that spare us the pain and cost of experience.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Learning is finding out what you already know