Quotes About Knowledge

I know no such thing.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.

We lost the knowledge of God," he went on to say, "at the moment when we transformed the Ecclesia from experience into theology, from a living reality into moralistic principles, good values, and high ideals. When that happened," Father Maximos said humorously, "we became like tin cans with nothing inside.

Well, as long as we do not know God experientially then we should at least realize that we are simply ideological believers," Father Maximos replied dryly. "The ideal and ultimate form of true faith means having direct experience of God as a living reality." I

This was a vital part of the process of simple realization, the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

Men who know are secure and Men who don't know believe in luck.

The world existed to be read. And I read it.

Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.

Indeed, the life of facts proved no bad substitute for the facts of life.

Knowledge may be power, but it is not resilience, or resourcefulness, or adaptability to life, still less is it instinctive sympathy with human nature;

Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation.

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.