Quotes About Knowledge

You learn a thing or two as the years go by

La vida se compone de demasiados Quizás. Y de muy pocas cosas que se puedan saber con absoluta seguridad...

Acknowledging one's fear of the unknown is realising what it means to be a person. Our existence is basically a tragedy. Throughout our lives we strive to increase our knowledge, our abilities, our experiences. But the bottom line is that all of that will be lost in oblivion.

Qué poco sabemos de nuestros vecinos», pensó.

Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund

From that heart come the words, "Do you love me?" Knowing the heart of Jesus and loving him are the same thing. The knowledge of Jesus' heart is a knowledge of the heart.

We might be competent in many subjects, but we cannot become an expert in the things of God. God is greater than our minds and cannot be caught within the boundaries of our finite concepts. Thus, spiritual formation leads not to a proud understanding of divinity, but to docta ignorantia, an "articulate not-knowing.

Prayer, which is breathing with the Spirit of Jesus, leads us to this immense knowledge.

It is quite understandable that you are afraid of this place. You have so little knowledge of it. You have caught glimpses of it, you have even been there at times, but for most of your life you have dwelt among your emotions, passions, and feelings and searched in them for inner peace and joy.

Many students have been for so many years on the receiving side and have become so deeply impregnated with the idea that there is still a lot more to learn, that they have lost confidence in themselves and can hardly imagine that they themselves have something to give, not only to the ones who are less educated but to their fellow students and teachers as well.

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

The world can absorb only doses of truth, he said; too much would kill it. One sought education in order to adjust the dose.

He could teach his students nothing. He was only educating himself at their cost.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read…What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.