Quotes About Knowledge

He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of the intellect, but of direct experience.

Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding

If we are caught by the obstacle of knowledge, even if truth comes knocking at our door, we will refuse to let it in.

If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.

Fear is based on ignorance. Lack of understanding is also a primary cause of anger.

Buddhist teachings are meant to awaken our true self, not merely to add to our storehouse of knowledge. From

Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.

To reach truth is not to accumulate knowledge, but to awaken to the heart of reality. Reality reveals itself complete and whole at the moment of awakening. In the light of this awakening, nothing is added and nothing is lost; but emotions that are based on concepts can no longer affect a man.

In Buddhism, knowledge constitutes the greatest obstacle to Awakening.

The Zen practitioner must . . . strive to liberate himself from his attachment to knowledge and to open the door of his being in order that truth might enter.

When we've accumulated so much knowledge inside, we don't have the capacity to digest it. It's like when we eat too much food, we can't digest it and we become constipated.

Journal paywalls are an example of something that works in the reverse direction, making communication less open and efficient.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

I am not a journalist or an academic.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

I like intellectual journeys.