Quotes About Knowledge

Fear feeds off ignorance, whereas compassion and lucidity flower from understanding.

Views, knowledge, and even wisdom are solid, and can block the way of understanding.

A physicist who is able to see the interpenetration and interbeing of elementary particles without going beyond his or her intellect has, from the viewpoint of Buddhist liberation, attained just a decorative facade. -Someone who studies Buddhism without practicing meditation has also accumulated knowledge only as decoration.

And have you traveled very far? Far as the eye can see. How often have you been there? Often enough to know. What did you see when you were there? Nothing that doesn't show. (from the 1967 song, Baby You're a Rich Man.

Some long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right formula in A solution for every fool

In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.

in order to really possess knowledge, whatever it may be, you must put it into practice, that is, master your nature so as to be able to express this knowledge in action. ... You are still very young, but you must learn right away that to reach the goal you must know how to pay the price, and that to understand the supreme truths you must put them into practice in your daily life. That's all.

In the Greater Community technology is not the prize. Power is not the prize. Advantage is not the prize. Domination is not the prize. The prize is Knowledge and Wisdom. This is fulfillment. And this is what you need in the world right now.

Wenig Bildung macht Einbildung!

Denn man hört nie auf erziehungsbedürftig zu sein; ich gehe noch jetzt in die Schule und lerne von Leuten, die meine Enkel sein könnten.

MARY: How in the world are our readers going to know who Miss Jenks is? She was only in the first book. CATHERINE: Then they should go back and read the first book. It's only two shillings, at bookshops and train stations. I would have mentioned that, but you told me to stop advertising!

This obsession with knowledge at the expense of human life, of ordinary human relations and pursuits, will destroy you

Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge

Yet because of the ignorance and stupidity of so many of those about him, he was able to consider himself at least fairly learned.

When we are cast from a group or a condition we have still the companionship of all that is. Nature is not ungenerous. Its winds and stars are fellows with you. Let the soul be but gentle and receptive, and this vast truth will come home — not in set phrases, perhaps, but as a feeling, a comfort, which, after all, is the last essence of knowledge. In the universe peace is wisdom.

From our earliest days, education has been a hallmark of our company. It was Walt himself who said, "We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment—as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

And you just know he knows he knows.

People should know more than what was or will be. People must know that which must never be." -- Theodore Sturgeon

He had never graduated from any college or university because he found them too slow for him, and too rigid in their approach to education. He could not get used to the idea that perhaps his professors knew what they were talking about.

Why, you poor things—didn't you know? Knowledge and understanding aren't props for one another. Knowledge is a pile of bricks, and understanding is a way of building. Build for me!

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.