Quotes About Knowledge

Once you learn how to learn, you have only to discover what is worth learning. Summarized

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, and adjustment which forms the secret of civilisation.

Joe has sense enough to know He is a god. So many gods don't know.

The silence inside the library, the big chairs, and long tables, and the fact that the library was always there and didn't seem to have a mortgage on it, or any sort of insecurity about it—all of that made me love it.

As for reading books, even far-out books, even beatnik books, fine. Only there are not enough books for me down South, which is one reason I came to New York.

Information is alienated experience.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

In the government of the sage,He keeps their hearts vacuous,Fills their bellies,Weakens their ambitions,And strengthens their bones,He always causes his people to be without knowledge [cunning] or desire,And the crafty to be afraid to act.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

One may know the world without going out of doors.One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.The further one goes, the less one knows.Therefore the sage knows without going about,Understands without seeing,And accomplishes without any action.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion

He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent...