Quotes About Knowledge

concentrating on those classics which school, with its needlessly laborious explanations of the obvious, had not spoiled for me.

Belief in dogma is an equally unavoidable stop-gap which must sooner or later be replaced by adequate understanding and knowledge if our civilization is to continue.

Deberíamos crecer como un árbol que tampoco sabe de su ley. Sin embargo, nos atamos a intenciones, sin tener en cuenta el hecho de que la intención es limitación, e incluso exclusión de la vida. Creemos poder aclarar una oscuridad con una intención y con ello pasamos por alto la luz. ¿Cómo podemos atrevernos a querer saber por anticipado de dónde nos vendrá la luz?

But somewhere and at some time there must have been people who sought the truth as I was doing

could moreover have assured himself beyond all doubt on this point had he taken counsel with his own omniscience.

La verdadera historia del espíritu no se conserva en los libros doctos, sino en el organismo vivo, anímico, de cada individuo.

old Carnegie library

Americans don't read very much.

That goon didn't know fishing from cathedral architecture!

I've always thought that as long as there were books left to read, life would always be worth living.

Collecting information is easy. Reviewing and applying information is hard.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

One can speak without understanding. What

This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

I fear I lose myself among books. I forget everything.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

To honor and celebrate; or to balance and rectify, drawing what you want or need into your life. A third mode is less personal, involving a desire to know more deeply, involving a desire to know more deeply, to grow in knowledge and understanding of the cards--breathing in the wisdom of the tarot for its own sake and to learn more about life and the human condition.

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

If you can't learn, you can't thrive.

To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.

Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.