Quotes About Knowledge

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

let's think about why you need a grammar book at all.

people want children to be creative before they have any knowledge or skill to be creative with.

Susan Wise Bauer

The days of kings and lords first began to lose their brightness when philosophers and scientists realized that the ancient Greeks, who had long been held up as the wisest men in the world, were sometimes wrong.

Newton wrote, "Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas." That is Latin for, "Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth." When

Underline in your books, jot notes in the margins, and turn the corners of your pages down. Public education is a beautiful dream, but public classrooms too often train students not to mark, write in, disfigure, or in any way make books permanently their own. You're a grownup now, so buy your own books if you possibly can. In my opinion, a cheap paperback filled with your own notes is worth five times as much as a beautiful collector's edition.

In fact, far from being phonetic, hieroglyphs were designed to be indecipherable unless you possessed the key to their meaning. The Egyptian priests, who were guardians of this information, patrolled the borders of their knowledge in order to keep this tool in their own hands. Ever since, the mastery of writing and reading has been an act of power

Technology can do a great deal to make information gathering easier, but it can do little to simplify the gathering of wisdom.

When you read, you develop wisdom—or, in Mortimer Adler's words, "become enlightened." "To be informed," Adler writes in How to Read a Book, "is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is all about.

as Thomas Paine said, it has never been discovered how to make a man unknow his knowledge.

We're born with a mapped-out route. This one, not that one. Who you dream with. Who you love. It's one or the other. You choose without choosing. That's how it is. Each of us travels on their own path. Besides, how do you love someone without truly knowing who they are? How do you travel that distance when there's all that you don't know about the other?

I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.

I was corrupted in other ways. I was led to believe that intelligence made a difference.

I wondered if, in some way that I did not understand, he was using that knowledge to presume an intimacy between us, as if we shared a secret that was exciting because it was dangerous to both of us.

She knows the poem.

Will you tell me?" I asked. "Tell you what?" He spoke flatly, as if he dreaded my question and already knew that he would answer it. "What you did." "Why do you think that knowing makes a difference?" "I've thought that all my life." "Well, you're wrong. Knowing don't mean shit.

There's something I know but I don't know it yet. It's driving me nuts.

All you can do, every day, is to learn the truth as best you can.

Daniel Dennett, a consciousness theorist, famously said that scholars are a library's way of making another library.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

inability to decipher words came from neglect, but Eve knew better.

because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.