Quotes About Knowledge

That from which these things are born That by which they live That to which they return at death Try to know that

Read, read, read. That's all I can say.

There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to "know nature" on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way.

Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human.

I)t is in curiosity, first, and then in knowledge and reflection that freedom rests.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

We thought we knew everything about him. But that's not how life is. When all's said and done, we can never truly know one another.

Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

What was he thinking about? He was old, but he hasn't found peace. Had he realized that a long life didn't automatically bestow wisdom?

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Carter G. Woodson

No people can go forward when the majority of those who should know better have chosen to go backward, but this is exactly what most of our misleaders do.

It is strange, then, that the friends of truth and the promoters of freedom have not risen up against the present propaganda in the schools and crushed it.

From the teaching of science the Negro was likewise eliminated. The beginnings of science in various parts of the Orient were mentioned, but the Africans' early advancement in this field was omitted.

We say, hold on to the real facts of history as they are, but complete such knowledge by studying also the history of races and nations which have been purposely ignored.

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,

ANOTHER factor the Negro needs is a new figure in politics, one who will not concern himself so much with what others can do for him as with what he can do for himself. He will know sufficient about the system

Tarikh Es-Soudan.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).