Quotes About Knowledge

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.

If peace had a smell, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.