Quotes About Knowledge

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

The study of scriptures is a weapon of war.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are

The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.