Quotes About Knowledge

I thought that in prayer everything depended on me and my efforts, on the books passing through my hands, and the beauty of the words which I was able to introduce into my conversations with God. What is worse, I thought the knowledge of God I was acquiring through study and reasoning was the real and only one. I hadn't yet understood that it was only an image, a covering, an introduction to God's true and authentic revelation, which is supernatural and eternal.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Añadió que nada en este mundo era un regalo: todo cuanto hubiera que aprender debía aprenderse por el camino difícil.

Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.

But we must know first that our acts are useless and yet we must proceed as if we didn't know it. That's a sorcerer's controlled folly.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge . . ..

The journey by itself was sufficient; any hope of arriving at a permanent position was outside the boundaries of his knowledge.

a man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus

In the life of a warrior there is only one thing, one issue alone which is really undecided: how far one can go on the path of knowledge and power. That is an issue which is open and no one can predict its outcome. I once told you that the freedom a warrior has is either to act impeccably or to act like a nincompoop. Impeccability is indeed the only act which is free and thus the true measure of a warrior's spirit.

Mo? po?iva na vrsti znanja koje ?ovek poseduje. Kakvog ima smisla znati ono što je beskorisno? To nas ne?e pripremiti za neizbežan susret sa nepoznatim.

What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

He remarked that each of us was barred from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each individual; and that the most impregnable of my barriers was the drive to disguise my complacency as independence.

I asked him if each of the two spots had a special name. He said that the good one was called the sitio and the bad one the enemy; he said these two places were the key to a man's wellbeing, especially for a man who was pursuing knowledge. The sheer act of sitting on one's spot created superior strength; on the other hand, the enemy weakened a man and could even cause his death. He said I had replenished my energy, which I had spent lavishly the night before, by taking a nap on my spot.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

Me sentí rodeado de millones de páginas abandonadas, de universos y almas sin dueño, que se hundían en un océano de oscuridad mientras el mundo que palpitaba fuera de aquellos muros perdía la memoria sin darse cuenta día tras día, sintiéndose más sabio cuanto más olvidaba.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

La paciencia es la madre de la ciencia -ofreció Marina. -Y la madrina de la demencia -repliqué.