Quotes About Knowledge

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

When a man sits buried in a book, it is not the man that you see and know that is reading: deep down in him are antecedent generations--soldiers, pirates, martyrs, fading back to cave men. As he reads, the 'universal' book is calling to one of them.

education that stops with school stops where it is beginning.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value—surprisingly quickly. —DAVID MAISTER, BUSINESS AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT

American democracy is at risk. The risk comes not from some external threat but from disturbing internal trends: an erosion of the activities and capacities of citizenship. Americans have turned away from politics and the public sphere in large numbers, leaving our civic life impoverished. Citizens participate in public affairs less frequently, with less knowledge and enthusiasm, in fewer venues, and less equally than is healthy for a vibrant democratic polity.

Knowledge is better than practice; meditation is better than knowledge; and best of all is surrender, which soon brings peace.

American undergraduates. They are very religious, he told me, but they know next to nothing about religion. Thanks to compulsory religious education (which in Austria begins in elementary schools), European students can name the twelve apostles and the Seven Deadly Sins, but they wouldn't be caught dead going to church or synagogue themselves. American students are just the opposite. Here faith without understanding is the standard; here religious ignorance is bliss.

A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.

As the shape and interior of the puzzle became clearer, those who possessed this information began to imagine controlling it. Empires exist because they can be conceived.

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows.

There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?

Knowledge is easy," the old woman told her. "Wisdom is hard.

I learned long ago that when a thing defies rational explanation then it is because I lack a complete understanding of the facts.

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son of investigation, Investigation, the son of knowledge, Knowledge, the son of understanding, Understanding, the son of wisdom, Wisdom, the son of Surrender to the Divine Will. The

Had he but known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe, Kit might have been better prepared.

For the scholar no effort is ever wasted.

Had he but known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe, Kit might have been better prepared. At least, he would have brought an umbrella.

Derision is the refuge of threatened ignorance, after all.

It would be a great boon to know where we stand in this world, what is, what has been, what will be. And to know it absolutely.

You should not mock what lies beyond your grasp." He

But there is so much—I know so little." "True," he said, his lean face lighting in a grin. "Is that not the beginning of true wisdom?

Had he but known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe, Kit might have been better prepared. At least, he would have brought an umbrella. Like