Quotes About Knowledge

I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.' 'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.

Fuk "youth" ... how about a fountain of SMART ?

The more you know, the less you understand.

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' - Great Aunt Celia

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' Great Aunt Celia, The Spider Goddess.

You know what happens to people who ask questions. And you know what happens to people who answer them.

Jesus (pbuh) said, "It is of no use to you to come to know what you did not know, as long as you do not act in accordance with what you already know. Too much knowledge only increases pride if you do not act in accordance with it

The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: "He [God] taught Adam the names of all things."8 Reason, intelligence, language, and writing will grant people the qualities required to enable them to be God's khalifahs (vicegerents) on earth, and from the very beginning, Quranic Revelation allies recognition of the Creator to knowledge and science, thus echoing the origin of creation itself.9

Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.

The old antiques dealer whispers to him that the secret of freedom and happiness lies in self-control and in a marriage between knowledge, will and power.

Što manje znaš šta si ti, više se plašiš onoga što nisi ti.

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

knew without question what I had seen. Adelaide and Penelope's mother could now, at last, rest in peace. I also knew without question that this information would be best kept from my husband. There is no point in trying to convert those who don't believe.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

All thinking people are in constant need of more books.

As the name implies, acquired ignorance is not intrinsic but rather comes about due to the influence of adopted beliefs and the culture we are raised in.

Instinctively, we assume that objects exist separate from the mind, but any investigation of objects necessarily involves the mind in some way, so knowledge always has a subjective element. We know there is a pen because we experience the pen. Thus, no object of knowledge exists apart from the mind experiencing it.

We are always making assumptions about wholes based on knowing only parts.

This fact has never been published anywhere, and apart from my father I alone knew anything about it.

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.

Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago.

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.