Quotes About Knowledge

Counsel dwells not under the plumed hat.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisiac Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream. We stand here too conscious of many things: with Knowledge, the symptom of Derangement, we must even do our best to restore a little Order. Life is, in few instances, and at rare intervals, the diapason of a heavenly melody; oftenest the fierce jar of disruptions and convulsions, which, do what we will, there is no disregarding.

Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.

new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.

Dante Alighieri] is world-great not because he is world-wide but because he is world-deep.

Al wat de mensheid heeft gedaan, gedacht, gewonnen, of is geweest, dat ligt als door toverkunst vastgelegd in boeken.

In Büchern liegt die Seele aller gewesenen Zeit.«

Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books! –

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

My books are friends that never fail me." ( Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle ; 17 March 1817)

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

So how do we know anything at all, if in fact we do know anything at all?

In the seventeenth century, René Descartes opted for reason over a divine source of knowledge. This came to be known as putting Descartes before the source.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Because of barriers of knowledge, barriers of state, and barriers of action, seeing your own buddha nature is like seeing color at night.

and then you would never be happy." 21. ?Yet We made them known to others thus, that they would know the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the end of time.

The one who knows much about anything knows far better than the uneducated how much he does not know about it.

The movement from Industry to Information would prove to be the fundamental economic shift of the next four decades, and it was hardly some secret conspiracy even then. Going forward, as Daniel Bell had explained, knowledge would replace labor, services would replace goods, and a new knowledge-based power class would emerge that would increase the role of women in the economy.

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.